D7100 vs D7000 + Single prime question?

86JR · 18 Oct 2013 at 13:17

Hi. Was about to order a D7000 but the D7100 is out, I was just wondering what the differences were in laymans terms and is it worth the price difference?

I also want to stick to Primes this time around - so if you had to choose a prime and stick with it, what would you choose? I am not going to buy anything like 24g/35g/85g/135 etc until I am proficient... I realise from the past I have a lot to learn so I am just starting again really.

I was looking at the following.
Nikon 35mm 1.8G
Nikon 85mm 1.8G
Nikon 50mm 1.4G

Which one would you choose?

86JR · 18 Oct 2013 at 17:57

I had the nifty fifty before on the D300s and D70 and to be honest, I rarely used it. It was super sharp etc but I found it was not wide enough for what I needed, also it was too shallow to hold properly on a gripped D300s.

86JR · 19 Oct 2013 at 02:42

When you look through the viewfinder, is it a single rectangle which you can move around? This is what I loved the most about my D300s, as you could selectivly focus on something that is not directly in the middle of your viewfinder, and then if you or the target moved, it would track it.

86JR · 19 Oct 2013 at 22:35

No... but the only zoom I can think of is the 24-70 which is not wide enough on a crop.