What nikon dslr camera should I upgrade to from a nikon d3000?
What nikon dslr camera should I upgrade to from a nikon d3000?
Added (1). I have 3 lens with my little camera an 18-55mm (standard kit lens) an all rounder 18-200mm and a 50mm prime lens (my favourite.)
The best upgrade for a Nikon D3000 is a better lens surely?
Anyway, what extra things do you need your next camera to be able to do?
You have a good camera there. Upgrade your lenses to get much more improvement/cost. Get rid of the kit lenses such as the 18-55 zoom and go to the 16-85 for better bokeh, contrast and edge sharpness.
Don't worry about the camera body until you're ready to go full frame, or Nikon comes up with a real breakthrough in sensor quality (ie, much lower noise, but not likely since sensors are already counting down to just a few photons).
Okay, you've got a couple of pretty reasonable lenses - the 18-200 is a good long zoom and the 50mm is a cracking good lens - and you want to get a higher quality body with more facilities. And why not? The D3000 is capable of good pictures, but it is quite basic and a couple of generations old now and missing a lot of useful facilities which a more advanced amateur might find useful.
Consider a D7000 body. That would be much faster to react; faster autofocus with more autofocus points; more advanced and more accurate metering, with choice of matrix or spot or center weighted metering; much faster motor-drive; better sensor with higher resolution and much lower noise, particularly at high ISO; much higher ISO capabilities; better LCD with live-view (sadly lacking on the D3000); full HD video and an intervalometer to allow you to take time lapse pictures.
The D7000 is better in so many ways that you will take quite a long time learning all of the features. It is a much more advanced camera and as you learn to use it properly it will help you to advance in your photographic techniques. There's a newer D7100, but there isn't really enough difference to justify spending the extra £220 - in fact the launch of the D7100 has pushed the price of the D7000 down quite a lot to under £600, which is a bit of a bargain considering the advanced features that it offers.