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Here are some review of the new DSLR from nikon company, that make some people around the world wait for this release. A new powerful digital camera. Stop the rumor mill – the D95 D7000 is here! The much-anticipated successor to the D90 new DSLR isn’t quite what a lot of internet pundits expected, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot to get excited about if you’re a D90 user impatient for an upgrade. In fact, that’s exactly what the D7000 is – an upgrade option for D90 and D5000 users, which occupies a new position in Nikon’s DSLR lineup, between the D90 and D300S.

Buy Now Nikon D7000:

Although ergonomically, the D7000 is a very close match for the D90, its overall ‘feel’ is considerably more serious, thanks to a magnesium alloy body shell and thicker rubber coating on the hand grip and rear of the camera. In terms of its specification, the D7000 actually outguns the D300S in many respects, and at 16.2Mp it offers the second highest resolution of any Nikon DSLR, behind only the 24Mp D3X. All of these pixels are packed onto a newly developed CMOS sensor, which is almost certainly the same or very similar to that in the Sony Alpha SLT-A55. As well as extra resolution, the new sensor also offers a higher ‘standard’ ISO span of 100-6400, expandable up to the equivalent of ISO 25,600.

The D7000′s AF and metering systems are also new, and represent a significant upgrade to those used in the D90. The new camera boasts a 39-point AF array with 9 cross-type AF points and works in collaboration with a new 2016-pixel RGB metering sensor to allow 3D AF tracking (essentially tracking by subject color). Other changes include the same combined live view/movie switch control as the recently announced D3100, and a significantly upgraded movie specification, up to ‘full HD’ – 1920×1080 resolution at 24fps. Unlike the D90, the D7000 can also maintain AF during live view and movie shooting, thanks to its AF-F (‘full time’) AF mode.

D90 owners have been waiting for a replacement camera for a while, and although the D90 isn’t set for retirement quite yet, the D7000 certainly represents a compelling upgrade.

1. NIKON D7000 has U1 and U2 Fast Recall Modes
he D7000 finally addresses my biggest beef with Nikon, which is the lack of any fast way to save and recall complete banks of camera settings.

Canon has done this for years, with the C1, C2 and C3 positions on their mode dials, while Nikon just couldn’t do it. Nikon offered a confusing option of various settings banks, however these banks were tedious to call-up, erased themselves, required two parallel sets of banks to save and recall, and still only remembered, together, only about 80% of what you needed!

One thing Nikon may have missed in the U1 and U2 positions is that they probably can’t save and recall advance modes, because those are controlled with a real switch. For these positions to be as helpful as what Canon does, they need to save and recall everything about the camera’s setup. We’ll see.

The “Q” on the advance mode dial is the Quiet mode, which makes the D7000 much quieter than usual.

2. Nikon D7000 has Two Card Slots
3. Nikon D7000 has 2,016-Segment RGB Meter
4. The AF point of Nikon D7000 is 39 AF Points
The D7000′s AF system has only a few less AF points than does the D300s.

Big deal; Nikon deliberately made a meaningless reduction in AF points from the D300s as not to cannibalize D300s sales. Can you see anything missing compared to a D300s?

5. Nikon D7000 has Two types of Auto White Balance!
A new “Ambient” auto white balance setting seems as if it will render tungsten light as orange, instead of trying to make it white.

6. Nikon D7000 is Tougher than the D90.
Most of the D7000′s body is magnesium alloy.

Here are some compare of this NIKON D7000 with other nikon camera

reference : Dpreview, ken