Which Camera would be best for me? Nikon?
I'm looking to invest in a new DSLR. I have the Nikon D7000. I mostly record videos and do photoshoots (not in a studio) I'm not looking to upgrade one step bigger, but maybe a few steps bigger.
It has been a long time since I have purchased a camera.
I want professional quality, looking to spend about $4500 (hopefully with or without lenses)
Bear in mind that getting a new camera won't mean better pictures. Photo quality depends more on user skill. The camera is only a tool. Upgrading to a higher end dSLR will make shooting easier but only if you know exactly what you are doing.
The D7000 is mid-end. There's only one step higher, full-frame. If you want to make the most of it, buy the most expensive camera Nikon offers. Your budget is not enough for that however but here's one juicy offer that you might hard to resist.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/..._85mm.html
If you really want that huge jump skip full-frame and go straight to medium format. I'm sure you will get exactly what you are looking for.
Nikon is the one you should choose.
An incremental jump is the D7200 which sports no optical low-pass filter. If you have good lenses, this will make your images slightly sharper.
Next, the D610 which is full frame.
D750, also full frame
D810, full frame, lots of pixels (won't make any difference for video), and no optical low-pass filter.
Lots of choices. In order to get quality images, you also need quality lenses.
You also need to have the skills to take quality images. If you don't have the skills, then you will get ho-hum images. Guess what, your D7000 can take quality images. Moving up to full frame will give you more control over depth of field and less noise at higher ISO settings.
Consider adding a good, low "mileage" used Nikon D800e and keeping your fine D7000
The D800/800e/810 cameras can shoot in RAW video, using the HDMI port and a suitable recording device like the Ninja 2 made by Atomos.
The cost of the D800/D800e/d810 and Ninja 2 with SSD or hard drive will fit into your budget nicely and of course you can use all the lenses in your current kit NOTE: A 750GB/5400rpm drive holds up to 16 hours of high quality Apple ProRes footage.
Shooting in video RAW will certainly produce the best Full HD video possible with such a camera.
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