Nikon D5000 Digital SLR Camera - Body Only

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At any rate, the range of functions that can be accessed via the interactive info panel is impressive. The Nikon D5000 is powered by a proprietary EN-EL9a Lithium-ion battery and records videos and image files on SD/SDHC cards. This came from me back when I was working for one of the world's leaders in measurement instruments, hee hee. The D5000, like the D40, D40x and D60, lacks most of the D90's extra control buttons that make the D90 such a masterpiece.

Other features from the D90 make it into the Nikon D5000, including Auto Active D-Lighting, In-camera retouching, and Picture Control. The camera also proved very well suited to night photography, with no hot pixels appearing in night shots with long-exposure noise reduction turned on. Focusing and zooming without introducing significant camera twist and shake was difficult when using the kit lens. No DX camera, regardless of rated ISO, is anywhere near as clean as any of the FX cameras like the D3, D3X and D700.megapixel CMOS sensor is said to be the same as the D90's, we expect it to have excellent imaging characteristics.

This adds a tiny delay between when you press the shutter and when the mirror flips up and the picture gets taken.This, however, introduces some shutter lag, which usually isn't worth the few decibels of difference versus what is already an impressively quiet shutter (Nikon recommends using the Quiet mode for taking pictures of sleeping babies, a situation in which a bit of shutter delay isn't a problem). Nikon really only wants you using ISO 200 ~ 3,200, so ISO 100 reads "Lo-1" and ISO 6,400 reads "HI+1.