Upgrade help

[tylinwilliams]

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a fantastic day! I am looking for some advice about upgrading from my nikon d5000 to another nikon that is a step above it! Does anyone have any advice they are willing to share with me? THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[amaethon]

I guess it depends on what you want to do and how mu h you have to spend. I recently upgraded from a D80 to D7000 and love it and don't regret it, great at high ISO useful for low light situations, plenty of features, has video if you are interested in that.
If you buy a kit, just make sure the lenses are what you really want as I went in to buy a body and hadn't properly considered lenses and would definitely not buy the twin lens kit that I did if I had to do it over, only as they don't suit my needs not that they were bad.
I woulqd also recommend going into a store and having a play with whichever model(s) you are interested in and ask the salespeople lots of questions to make sure it will do what you need it to do.

[Kaye]

Hi Ty,
From what I hear and from some of the shots I have seen other members produce with the D5000, it is a pretty good camera. What I am saying is that do you really need to upgrade the camera body at this stage?? or perhaps look into purchasing a quality lens for the body you have. (I am not sure what lenses you have).

If money is not a problem, and you have your heart set on a new camera body, I guess I'd go for the D7000 that Michael above has. I have the D90 and am very happy with that also which is a fair bit cheaper than the D7000.

[nikkie]

upgrading would have to be the next hardest thing to do next to deciding on the first Camera was as technology moves on so fast its not long before our new model is old. But think about it for a bit why do you feel you need to upgrade for is it because you feel that your not producing the photos you thought you ? is it because you want a new camera. My advice to you is give it some thought maybe put the money towards some nicer lens like Kaye has suggested. My advice to you is do some research and remember that the kit you have now will have to work with the new kit IE: lens are expensive buying a new Camera could also mean buying new or some new lens I not long ago brought a 70-500 loved it but it did not have auto focus I took it back to my camera store and the man admitted he made a mistake and gave me my money back well exchanged it for the 55-300 I love this lens as well but it has auto focus its not that the lens did not have auto focus on it but the auto focus did not work with my Nikon D3100 all same brand but different motor things so what ever you upgrade to this will have to be something to think about. But do the research when you have a $ amount you know how much you want to spend narrow it down to 2 or 3 cameras and then come back for advice that is my advice

[tylinwilliams]

Thanks for the advice guys! So I have four lenses.....18-55mm (kit lens), 55-200mm (kit lens), 50mm fixed lens f/2.8, 24-70mm f/2.8. I've thought about the D7000. The reason I want another camera is so I have a good back up for when I shoot weddings. Right now I have someone go with me and shoot their nice DSLR, and I use my D5000 and I use my nikon P90 point and shoot as a back up, which wouldn't produce anywhere near the quality photos that I want! So that is why I'm wanting a new camera! I guess I'd like to look at Nikon d7000, nikon d90, and (maybe) nikon d300? Does that help?