D6000 (Body Only)

Well, because Jody in his infinite brilliance managed to accidentally delete the first version of this post, here we go again:

There it is kiddies! The D5000! I’ve seen this bouncing around rumor town a bit, and it’s nice to see it’s true. For those not up with the jazz, it’s a slightly stripped down D90 with a smaller bod and a new and happening tilt/swivel LCD (which I love, and which brings the DSLR market up to 4 current models with it, 6 if you count the Sonys with tilting screens, 7 if you add the lonely E-330 down on our shelf that someone needs to take home.)

So, in the interest of public service, here’s a breakdown of the pertinent differences (also known as “why this isn’t going to kill the D90″), comparing the new and shiny D5000 to the D90:

Pros:

• Tilt/swivel LCD
• Smaller body (though not by much, apparently)
• Lighter body (fairly notable, actually, 100g or so)

Cons:

• Smaller LCD (2.7″ @ 230,00 vs the D90′s 3″ with 920,000 dots. BIG difference.)
• No built-in AF motor. That’s right, the D5000 has the same lens compatibility issues as the D40-D60 bodies.
• Smaller viewfinder (approx. 95% coverage at .78x magnification vs 96% coverage at .94x magnification.

Both bodies have 720 video at 24 FPS, 11 point auto-focus systems, 12.3 megapixel imagers, and play nicey-nice with the GP-1 GPS dongle. I’m taking it on faith they also have varied delete functions, which unfortunately my editor also does.

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