Are these 'bargains'?

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I was having a look in my local camera shop beginning with J and saw a couple of eye-catching bargains.

Firstly, the Nikon D7000 body is down to £849. It was just under £1000 in shop the other day.

Also, I thought this would be an ideal starter kit for someone. The Nikon D5000 with 18-55 and 55-200 VR lenses for £499.

Anywhere cheaper than that on the high street?
 
tbh I'd steer clear of any motorless Nikon, it rules out loads of old glass and the nifty fifty - may as well put the extra money to a D90 over the D5000
 
I was choosing between the D5000 and D90 just last month (couldn't really stretch to D7000). In the end I bought the D90. Build quality is so much better and the ability to use non AF lense is fantastic (bought a brand new 50mm 1.8d prime for £75 this week).

Really happy with my purchase. I would have bought the D7000 if I had and extra £500 lying around but I didn't.
 
Ksanti said:
tbh I'd steer clear of any motorless Nikon, it rules out loads of old glass and the nifty fifty - may as well put the extra money to a D90 over the D5000
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Except if you are buying a budget camera I don't think you care about autofocusing some of the oldish lenses. There are actually relatively few lenses with AF-D that anyone is likely to want to own on a entry level camera.
Most older lenses re manual focus anyway, a vast majority of useful lenses are AF-S and even if you were to get a D90 you want get metering with a lot of the lenses.

Given the Nikon 35mm 1.8 AF-S and 50 mm1.4 AF-S lenses I really can't think of anything else a beginner would want.
 
kidloco said:
I was choosing between the D5000 and D90 just last month (couldn't really stretch to D7000). In the end I bought the D90. Build quality is so much better and the ability to use non AF lense is fantastic (bought a brand new 50mm 1.8d prime for £75 this week).

Really happy with my purchase. I would have bought the D7000 if I had and extra £500 lying around but I didn't.
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Where you get the 50mm 1.8 from??
 
D.P. said:
Except if you are buying a budget camera I don't think you care about autofocusing some of the oldish lenses. There are actually relatively few lenses with AF-D that anyone is likely to want to own on a entry level camera.
Most older lenses re manual focus anyway, a vast majority of useful lenses are AF-S and even if you were to get a D90 you want get metering with a lot of the lenses.

Given the Nikon 35mm 1.8 AF-S and 50 mm1.4 AF-S lenses I really can't think of anything else a beginner would want.
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Indeed, there are a few for not many you'd likely want with a D5000 - 85/1.8 is the only one which springs to mind...

(there are also the old 24/2.8 which is plastic but the second sharpest 24mm Nikon for next to no money...however how many D5000 owners want one is open to question)
 
bigredshark said:
Indeed, there are a few for not many you'd likely want with a D5000 - 85/1.8 is the only one which springs to mind...

(there are also the old 24/2.8 which is plastic but the second sharpest 24mm Nikon for next to no money...however how many D5000 owners want one is open to question)
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The 20 and 24mm primes don't work well on digital though - Lenses like he Sigma and Tamron 17-50 2.8 zooms offer better image quality.

So I agree, the only lens I can think of that has a practical value for people on a budget with low-end gear that wont autofocus on motor-less cameras is the 85mm 1.8 AF-D.

Even here there are options, the Sigma 85 1.4 is obviously more expensive but offers a lot of value for money. The Nikon 85 3.5 is a strange one, and not very fast, but I can see some people on shoe-string budgets liking it for a portrait lens and Macro 2 in 1. It is still a stop and half faster than most kit lenses.

It will be interesting to see if Nikon make any updated 1.8/2.0 AF-S prime lenses.
 
fozzybear said:
I was having a look in my local camera shop beginning with J and saw a couple of eye-catching bargains.

Firstly, the Nikon D7000 body is down to £849. It was just under £1000 in shop the other day.

Also, I thought this would be an ideal starter kit for someone. The Nikon D5000 with 18-55 and 55-200 VR lenses for £499.

Anywhere cheaper than that on the high street?
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Sorry to bring up an old thread, but can anyone comment on whether the above D5000 with twin lenses is still a good buy? I currently have a Panasonic G1 with the 14-45 kit lens and while looking for a longer lens it seems I could sell the G1 and get the D5000 twin kit for less than buying a longer 4/3 lens.
 
explicit4u said:
But surely you save a lot of money if you only need to buy AF lenses instead of AF-S?
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You don't get to choose if a lens hasAF-S or AF-D so there is no direct saving. The cost of AF-S in most lenses is minimal.

Some AF-D lenses are cheaper simpy because they are older or inferior.

In the end there are almost no AF-D lenses that any begginer would want, so it is not really an issue at all.
 
So my employer has a discount with J...ops and I picked up the D5000 twin kit for £460 last night, very pleased with it for the price so far.
 
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