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汽车产经报道团队Nikon D5000
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Nikon D5000
4FPS, Video, 2.7& Tilt LCD ()
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Nikon D5000 and
(21.6 oz/611g without lens). . I
is also a great place to get it, as is Amazon
as , , and . Sometimes Adoramra offers deals on
January 2011: This is an older model from 2009. The newest
is much, much better, but more expensive as well. The
is also newer, and about the same price. Have a careful look at them, too.
23 December 2009
05 June 2009
03 June 2009
27 May 2009
Nikon discovered that some D5000s are defective because they won't turn on, and they are .
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Introduction
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I personally
suggest , , , ,
I can't vouch for
The Nikon D5000
is Nikon's best DSLR today, if size, weight and price matter.
The D5000 offers the technical image quality of Nikon's best DX cameras like the D300s and D90, with the smallest size, weight and price.
Something the D5000 does exceptionally well is work quietly. When I first shot it, I noticed how quiet it was, and a week later when I found the , I was astounded! It's far quieter than any other SLR, and is at least as quiet as the LEICA rangefinder cameras.
The D5000 has the
D300s' sensor, the D90's AF sensors, the D300s' superb
image processing smarts and the D90's crappy movie mode. The D5000 shares the same
as the D300s and other Gen 2 cameras.
The D5000, like the D40, D40x and D60, lacks most of the D90's extra control buttons that make the D90 such a masterpiece. In terms of command and control, the D5000 is the same as the discontinued : you need menus to select among AF-S, AF-C and AF-A modes, AF-area modes, WB trims and etc.
I like all the Gen 2 features like 12MP resolution, ADR
and magic lateral color fringe correction, but even then, I still love the images I get from my old D40. The extra pixels don't make better pictures.
The D5000 is Nikon's least expensive camera with the same technical image quality as the $5,500
in normal light, but unless you're making prints at least three feet (1 meter) wide, it just doesn't matter.
It requires a very skilled photographer to get great ph buying a technically better camera has nothing to do with getting better photos.
Once you have the skill to elicit great photos from one camera, you can get them from any camera. It's like pianos: a 9-foot
may be better piano than the upright at the local bar, but if you can't play the piano,
you won't get good music out of any of them. Anyone can bang on a piano and anyone can shoot a camera, but it takes an artist to get decent results from either one. The sad
part is how many well-meaning people think photography is as simple as buying a camera.
Getting great pictures comes from knowing how to &play& your
and paying attention to the lighting. If you know what you're doing, you can do it on the D5000.
The D5000 can record video and mono sound as a goof, but any camcorder gives much better moving picture and sound quality. The
Nikon D5000 has relatively poor video and audio quality, and can't focus while you shoot. Just buy a camcorder if you want video. (Nikon doesn't make camcorders, so they're not going to tell you that.)
If I only had one DSLR, I wouldn't complain if it were a D5000.
The D5000 is a wonderful camera, but
I prefer the D90's ergonomic masterpiece of
programming of its ,
buttons so I can
shoot the D90 single-handed (click those links, and/or see
my ). You won't read this on geek sites that can't get beyond pixels, but in actual shooting, the D90 lets me shoot faster and more conveniently than the D40, D5000 or even D300. The D5000 and D40 lack these tricks.
Rear, Nikon D5000. .
Specifications
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Finder &&&&&&&
Same size as a D40, smaller than a D300.
0.44x magnification with standard (for ) 28mm lens. (0.78x with
50mm tele lens).
95% coverage.
18mm eyepoint.
Switchable grid lines.
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AF &&&&&&&
11 points.
Shutter &&&&&&&
1/4,000 ~ 30 sec, bulb.
&Tested to& 100,000 cycles.
Remote Control &&&&&&&
Optional $18
IR remote.
Everyone shou it works with many other Nikons. Not only is it the replacement for a cable release, it gets you Time exposures and is small enough to carry everywhere.
The D5000 also works with the Remote Cord MC-DC2.
Maximum Shutter Speed with Flash () &&&&&&&
Pro Nikons are 1/250, and the D40 beats them all at 1/500.
Frame Rate &&&&&&&
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Guide Number 39/12 (Feet/meters at ISO 100).
Does not control .
Image Sensor &&&&&&&
, 12MP CMOS.
Sensor Cleaner: Yes, ultrasonic.
Image Sizes
4,288 x 2,848 pixels native.
3,216 x 2,136 and
2,144 x 1,424 pixels.
Light Meter &&&&&&&
420 segment RGB Color Matrix. Also center-weighted and
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Live View &&&&&&&
on the back of the Nikon D5000. .
Nikon claims four Live View modes. I can' I press the [Lv] button on the back and it just goes.
This is just a shot of
I Photoshopped onto the back of a press photo of the D5000. When I call up live view, it's a very messy display with all sorts of control graffiti written all over it.
ISO &&&&&&&
ISO 200, default.
ISO 100 ~ 6,400 also available.
Nikon really only wants you using ISO 200 ~ 3,200, so ISO 100 reads &Lo-1& and
ISO 6,400 reads &HI+1.&
File Formats &&&&&&&
JPG and/or
Video &&&&&&&
File Format: Motion JPG AVI.
Image Sizes:
Bizarre, non-standard 640 x 424 pixels at 24 FPS. Menu option: 1,280 x 720 at
24FPS and bizarre
320 x 216 pixel at 24 FPS.
External audio input? No; just the crummy mono mic on the front.
Rear LCD &&&&&&&
Nikon D5000 Flipping LCD. .
2.7,& 230,000 dots. I measured one, and the image is only 2.6& diagonally, not 2.7.&
Swivels all around like the LCDs on camcorders. Just like camcorders, you can flip it over for its own protection if you're not using it.
Same resolution as D40 not high-resolution like
the D90, D300, D3 and D3X.
Storage &&&&&&&
Single SD card.
Data Communication &&&&&&&
There's also an
HDMI HD output with a mini HDMI connector.
GPS &&&&&&&
Optional GP-1.
EN-EL9a battery. Charger included.
The EN-EL9 battery from my D40 works perfectly.
Bottom, Nikon D5000. .
Size &&&&&&&
5.0 x 4.1 x 3.1.& (127 x 104 x 80 mm).
Weight &&&&&&&
21.555 oz. (611.05g) measured with battery and memory card, but no lens, caps or straps.
This is about halfway between the
(710g) and the
Nikon specifies 20 oz (1 lb. 4 oz. or 560g) butt-naked with no battery card, lens, or anything.
Price (USA) &&&&&&&
$600 body only, $700 with 18-55 VR, April 2010.
$630 body only, $730 with 18-55 VR, September 2009.
$730, April and May, 2009. ($850 with excellent
Introduced &&&&&&&
Available &&&&&&&
Photographers fist got them delivered on 26 May 2009.
As of November 18th 2010, they no longer seem to be available.
Box, Nikon D5000. .
Performance
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Top, Nikon D5000. .
Autofocus &&&&&&&
AF works fine, just like a D40. In the dark, it needs to light up its the D5000 isn't
a low-light speed demon like the D3.
If the light is unfavorable and the D5000 can't really see what it's doing, it's not unusual that it will hang up and not focus, losing your picture, just as the D40 will do in very dim light.
Often light this dim doesn't result in a clear photo anyway, but if you're shooting in really crappy light, you want a D700 or D3.
The rear multi-controller works great to select AF points. The center button gets right to the center AF point.
Manual Focus &&&&&&&
If you set
to ON, the bar graph becomes a focus bar graph, which you may or may not find handy.
It doesn't update instantly, like a real rangefinder, but it is a better indication than the single OK dot that simple Nikons have instead.
I found it also handy when I put the lens manually at its closest focus distance and moved in and out to get the closest possible shot.
Meter &&&&&&&
The meter is among the most accurate I've used, better and more consistent than the D40 and D80.
The D5000 meter is at least as good as the D90 and D300.
Data &&&&&&&
Unlike higher-up cameras, there is no way to save settings to a card.
You can save and recall Picture Control settings.
JPG files are set at 300 DPI by default, which is a pain for me as a web designer since I have to set them back to 72 DPI in a Photoshop action to get my type to render properly on them.
The file numbering sequence incorrectly defaults to OFF, meaning you'll often be shooting files named DSC_0001.JPG.
Remember to set CFN d4 to ON so your files start at the last number you shot so you'll not have duplicate file numbers on your hard drive. If you do, it's a bear to put them on the same CD or thumb drive to bring to Price Club to get printed, or put on the same web page!
Picture Controls &&&&&&&
The D5000 has the exact same
settings and look as the D300, D3, D3X, and D90.
Automatic Dynamic Range&&&& &&&&&&&
The D5000 has the
as the D300, D3, D3X, and D90, and includes the newer Auto setting of the D90.
Controls &&&&&&&
It's basic, just like the D40. There are no buttons for ISO, WB or QUAL; you get to them in the menus. You can program one FUNC button to do your choice of many of these things, but you then lose the self timer button.
There is no
one-handed INFO button like on the D90. You need a second hand to hit the replay button (you don't need a second hand to play right after you shoot), and need a second hand to delete pictures or get into the menus.
Quiet Mode
In its , the D5000 is
the quietest Nikon ever.
The D5000's Quiet Mode is a shutter release mode
in the same place you choose Single, Continuous, Self Timer or Remote Control. It's at the very bottom, where you won't see it unless you click all the way down.
As mentioned here, Quiet Mode is a regular shooting mode not related to Live View. In Quiet Mode, you get one picture every time you press the shutter.
Quiet Mode slows down the
mirrors and
mechanical junk that has to fly around
inside the D5000, which makes it much quieter. This adds a
tiny delay between when you press the shutter and when the mirror flips up and the picture gets taken. This is a small pr remember, in the situations you use Quiet Mode you're working very delicately. (See also .)
The D5000 in Quiet Mode is
even a tiny little bit quieter than a , which is the
cloth-shuttered rangefinder camera used
by modern journalists
when they need a quiet camera.
The D5000 in Quiet Mode is far quieter than any digital Nikon SLR, and far quieter than the
, , , , , ,
in its own quiet advance mode, and even a little quieter than the Nikon SP and Leica M3 mechanical cloth-shuttered rangefinder cameras from the 1950s. I'm not I have all these
cameras sitting right here and compared them.
How did I measure this? I used my ears! Fire a Leica M7 and then snap a
D5000 in Quiet Mode, and they are about the same. Snap any other SLR, and it's like night-and-day.
Ears work better than dB meters when comparing which is loudest, even if you can't show impressive-looking but relatively meaningless numbers. I have plenty of dB meters here, but the jury is still out & and has been for decades & trying to agree on
objective standards
measurements of
discontinuous noise that correlate well to perceived levels. In layman's terms, this means that the best way to quantify
which is quietest
is to listen.
(I'm actually much better in audio than I am at photography. When the Hollywood section of the , of which I've been a member since high school and eventually became an officer, came to me as one of the
local experts and asked me to present a technical paper on the relationship between audio measurements and perception, I had to explain that there usually isn't any. The $50,000 audio instruments I sold only
tell you if something is broken or not & not how good it sounds. This came from me back when I was working for one of the world's leaders in measurement instruments, hee hee. I'm honest to a fault.)
I gave up looking for quieter Nikons. There just aren't any. My
has film in it, but I doubt it's any quieter. The only camera that might be quieter is the Konica Hexar, or of course a no-moving-parts digital compact.
There are no SLRs anywhere near as quiet as a D5000 in Quiet Mode.
Not only is the D5000 the same as, or a little quieter than the LEICA, the D5000 winds itself at the same time, while the LEICA still needs to wind film. (Forget the , it's noisier than thumb-winding.)
The fact that the D5000 is at least as quiet as the Leica M7 means it probably also can replace the Leica M8.2 for journalists. (I haven't tried an M8.2.) Sorry, L this was Leica's last remaining professional stronghold.
The D5000 weighs less than the M7, too. HA HAH!
I am paying respect to the LEICA as . The LEICA is almost as quiet as a D5000 in
Quiet Mode, and by comparison, every other
copy of the Leica is far noisier. The electronic LEICA M7 the mechanical LEICA M3 is a little noisier from various mechanical aftersounds at the slower speeds where sound levels are most critical.
To sum up, the D5000 in Quiet Mode is as quiet as the LEICA. After 50 years, Nikon SLRs have
stuck it to Leica again. The
are louder, and any other SLR is like a
by comparison. I haven't compared the D5000 directly to the Voigtl&nder bodies, but since the Voigtl&nders are louder than LEICA, they must be louder than the D5000 in Quiet Mode.
Not even the D5000 or the LEICA is quiet enough to
For those, you need to shoot the dress rehearsal or from behind glass in the recording booth.
Live View &&&&&&&
Live view is still primitive.
Live View is easy to use (just press the [Lv] button), but autofocus is slow to nonexistent.
doesn' get a point-and-shoot like a
if you want better response while viewing through the LCD.
Video &&&&&&&
D5000 movies are crummy.
Autofocus is slow in Live View, and doesn't work at all in movie mode. If you can't track motion and keep it in focus, why shoot a video? Get a camcorder or pocket camera if you want decent video files.
The sound is from one crummy mono microphone, and the video images are compressed to fit the SD memory card, just like any point-and-shoot.
Not only are the video images
captured funny from a sensor designed for still, not moving images, the D5000 has to compress the files to fit them on the SD card. You can't capture free
streaming video as a camcorder can. For instance, a one-hour DV tape records video at 25Mb/s (bits),
or a total of 12GB (Bytes) per hour. The D5000 records video files at only about 2.5GB/ a 10s clip at 640 x 424 is 7MB.
Did I say 640 x 424? That's non-standard 1.5:1 aspect ratio, not real 4:3 or 16:9 video.
The D5000 captures at 24FPS for jerky video, while a camcorder captures at 60 fields per second for fluid live motion.
Sadly the shutter angles
of the D5000 don't
they just look foolish.
Get a camcorder, or even a pocket camera like the discontinued , if you want decent moving pictures or decent sound.
You can't see through the viewfinder while shooting. It blacks out.
You can't use the LCD Live View display for shooting anything that moves (the whole point of a video) because its image is delayed a critical fraction of a second. You're only seeing things on the LCD after they happen.
The D5000 can't autofocus while shooting, so most of your video will be out of focus.
Auto exposure does track while shooting.
You cannot set manual exposure while shooting. The exposure will move up and down automatically as the scene changes.
You can dial-in Exposure Compensation while shooting, but you'll hear the knob clicking in the audio!
Lens VR works while shooting.
Vertical lines
distort while panning left or right. Everything wiggles
as if it's made from Jello
Video File Compression:
Much better than needed
for YouTube, nowhere near as good as a DV camcorder.
Video Quality: Much worse than a camcorder.
Audio Quality: Voice notes only, crappy mono mic.
Ergonomics &&&&&&&
Ergonomics are great, just like the D40.
The biggest news in the D5000
is the use of an approximation of Helvetica instead of the 7-segment
font used previously for f/stop and shutter speed readouts.
The INFO panel rotates as you rotate the D5000.
two hands to delete images, two hands to get into the menu system, and two hands
to hit PLAY if you don't catch it right after you take the shot,
Playback &&&&&&&
Whoo hoo, scrolling around a zoomed image is among the fastest I've seen in any digital camera.
You can scroll diagonally through a zoomed image, too!
The bad news is that there is a firmware defect, at least in my D5000 firmware versions A: 1.00, B: 1.00, L: 1.001.
After you take a picture and an image pops on the screen, if you spin the dial to get to other images as you can do on other Nikons, instead of changing to the other pictures, the D5000 accidentally interprets that input as thinking you want to change your exposure settings.
You shoot an image, see the playback, and spin the knob to see the other images. Nothing happens, but what's happening behind your back is that you're shifting your program, aperture or shutter speeds unintentionally, and they'll be torked as soon as you try to make your next shot.
Until Nikon fixes this, you need to hit the PLAY button twice to get back to the official play mode when an image pops up right after shooting it,
or tap the rear multi-controller left or right, before the rear control dial swaps photos instead of unintentionally screwing with your exposure settings.
The technical reason this happens is because for some reason half the D5000 still thinks its in SHOOT mode when the image pops up on the back screen after shooting it, so its reading your dial changes as exposure input, not playback input.
Face recognition works
on playback. Its usually easy to swap among zoomed faces on playback. I see no benefits to exposure when shooting, as far as I can tell, if the D5000 can't recognize faces and do anything about it while its shooting. Even when the D5000 recognizes faces, if they were in shadow and you didn't pop up the flash, they still come out too dark.
LCD &&&&&&&
The 2.6& LCD (measured) has the same resolution as the D40 LCD, just a little bigger. The D90 has a much bigger and much sharper LCD.
The D5000's LCD is bright and accurate.
You can flip it all around, and even flip it closed for protection and so you can just shoot like a film camera, without the distraction of looking at the LCD after every shot.
High ISOs &&&&&&&
look the same as the D90, which is a lot better than the D300.
for examples.
, which is ON by default as it should be, raises the noise levels, which is better than not having ADR and getting blocked-up shadows or highlights. ADR works harder and adds more noise in harsh lighting, thus skin can look noisy and nasty in contrasty light at ISO 1,600, and perfectly fine in better, softer light at ISO 3,200.
Blacks are crushed (made darker) at very high ISOs; this makes the image harsher. The D5000 doesn't display the easy elegance at high ISOs as
cameras do.
Picture Tricks
Believe it or not, automatic lens distortion correction really works!
Its off by default, but turn it ON, and it really does remove all the distortion of the 10-24mm or other lenses by magic, right as it records the JPGs to your card. The D5000 works with the raw data in-camera and doesn't seem to lose any sharpness or resolution doing these transformations.
Mechanics &&&&&&&
The body is all plastic. It's very good plastic and saves a lot of weight. There is no glass in the penta it's just air surrounded by mirrors, again to save weight.
The lens mount is metal, and lenses feel very
smooth coming off and on.
White Balance &&&&&&&
The D5000 has all the
tweaks like individual amber/blue and green/magenta trims on
each setting. These trims are saved and recalled along with each setting, so if you trim the Auto setting one way and the Cloudy setting another way, each setting stays as you trimmed it.
There is no Kelvin setting as there is on fancier Nikons.
There is no ability to save or recall more than one manual PRESET setting. It's easy to set the one manual PRESET, but you only have one setting.
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See also my .
Compared to Canon
I'm not going to compare the D5000 to Canon.
The two are completely different. Even though I
own quite a few Canon film and DSLRs, I wouldn't bother with Canon in this price range because I find the Nikons . Nerd sites and specs can't tell you this, but try to go out and shoot them, and with Canon, it's tougher to get the camera to go.
Nikon just shoots, while Canon always seems to bog me down behind more clicks in more menus.
Basics, compared among current models:
Utility and external controls
viewfinder and body mechanics
D40 with swivel screen
Technical quality: great prints up to at least
30x40& (75x100cm)
30x40& (75x100cm)
30x40& (75x100cm)
30x40& (75x100cm)
Weight, Oz.**
Weight, g.**
Price (4/2010, USA)
$500 incl. lens
$700 incl. lens
$975 no lens
$1,700 no lens
No. Crummy ergonomics.
Pick: Much improved over D3000, but expensive
Pick: great price, features and utility
Skip: too expensive and heavy.
Specifics, compared among various models:
Shoot with one hand?
Meter Accuracy
Usually needs -2/3 exp. comp.
Delete with one hand?
Finder Size
Finder Mag*
Pentaprism
Superimposed battery warnings
DOF preview
AF w/older AF Lenses?
Intervalometer
LCD resolution
Sensor cleaner
Not needed
Weight, Oz.**
Weight, g.**
Price (5/09, USA)
$430 incl. lens
$550 incl. lens
$730 no lens
$975 no lens
$1,700 no lens
* With standard (for ) 28mm lens. Nikon cheats and lists magnification for 50mm lenses, which is a tele lens on DX and of course gives a much higher magnification number to
hide the fact that all DX cameras have horribly tiny viewfinders.
** Actual measured weights including batteries and card, but no caps or lens. Nikon measures cameras stripped.
*** M built-in flash can't control remote flashes.
& 2010 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved.
Compared to obsolete models:
Shoot with one hand?
Meter Accuracy
Usually needs -2/3 exp. comp.
Delete with one hand?
Finder Size
Finder Mag*
Pentaprism
DOF preview
AF w/older AF Lenses?
Intervalometer
LCD resolution
Sensor cleaner
Weight, Oz.*
Weight, g.*
Price (5/09, USA)
* With standard (for ) 28mm lens. Nikon cheats and lists magnification for 50mm lenses, which is a tele lens on DX and of course gives a much higher magnification number to
hide the fact that all DX cameras have horribly tiny viewfinders.
** Including batteries, not stripped as specified by Nikon.
*** M built-in flash can't control remote flashes.
& 2009 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved.
Recommendations &&&&&&&
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I love the D5000. I used to love the old D40 more, but it's no longer available, making the D5000 my top DSLR pick.
If price doesn't matter, the
superior camera because it provides more direct-control knobs and buttons to allow you to make settings and adjustments faster than you can on the simpler D5000, D60, D40x or D40.
The D90 has significantly better utility than the D40, D40x, D60 and D5000 because the D90 adds many more direct control knobs and buttons to get to its extra features, while the D5000 and D40 share the same lack of buttons and rely more on menus for many settings, like ISO or White Balance. The D90 also adds many more features useful to skilled photographers not present in the D5000, like Kelvin settings for WB adjustment.
If you want full-frame for a larger viewfinder, superb hyper-ISO quality, get the . No DX camera, regardless of rated ISO, is anywhere near as clean as any of the FX cameras like the D3,
Few people need hyper ISOs. You're far better off buying a a $200
to use on a DX camera than shooting a slow (f/3.5~5.6) zoom on an FX camera.
All said and done, you'll notice I use several cameras to shoot different things. If I was
a normal person and could only choose one camera for everything, the D5000 just might
be that camera if I couldn't stretch for the D90.
The D5000 is the smallest, lightest Nikon that has
technical image quality indistinguishable from Nikon's best D3 and D700 in good light.
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