Nikon D7000

Let the Nikon D7000 shitstorm begin.

There is hardly any camera launch without any online incident. Invariably there are some problems, perceived or real. As it is, there is a myriad of problems experienced by early adopters of the newly launched Nikon D7000. Some of them are subjective while some aren't quite.

Images are soft.
Well, what can I say, this can be subjective. If the image is soft it can be a few things. Lens is no good. Camera shake. Focus is off. Most lenses are good. Unless you jerk your camera when depressing the shutter release button, I don't see how you can have camera shake and I don't subscribe to the notion that you should shoot with a tripod, like all the time. If I "have" to shoot with a tripod then I shoot medium/large format. If focus is off then yeah, the image can look like poop. Some experts suggest it maybe because of the densely packed pixels, 16MP in a DX sensor, that may cause diffraction even at f/8. Well that would be a disaster if I have to shoot at f/5.6 or larger in order to just get sharp images. I refuse to believe that.

Camera won't autofocus.
Well this is either or, so there is nothing subjective about it. Some owners of course got the insulting response like did you turn on AF? You have to be an idiot to turn off the AF and complain the camera can't AF. People say it's oxidation on the contacts. So cleaning the contacts should help right? I don't know I don't have one. My D70 don't ever have this contact problem, so lucky me.

Dead pixels
Everybody wants a perfect camera with perfect pixels. I remember getting an IBM Thinkpad with a dead pixel on the screen. It was very upsetting. It was bullshit. Thank goodness I don't have to pay for it. I would be upset too if I find hot pixel with my $1200 brand spanking new camera even if somebody pays for it.

The rest of the complaints are AF speed; AF speed in video and loud AF noise in video. These I consider understandable. Maybe I shoot "sports" with my D70 so I don't expect much. If you were to shoot for Sports Illustrated then perhaps a D3s should be your weapon of choice. As to AF speed and noise I kind of half expected that so I don't take issue with that. But it's OKAY if others do.

I remember when D70 first came out there was this whole issue about moire effect. I was able to look past it and enjoy the camera until this day. With my declining vision, I wish my D70 has a bigger better LCD screen, better noise handling, meter with AI, AIS lenses, a bump in the mega pixel department, a 1080P video mode. So the D7000 seems to fit the bill very well. I don't upgrade my digital gear every year so I proceed with caution.