Nikon D610 vs D7000, a small field report

In early 2012 I've bought a Nikon D7000, a camera that I needed for the area of ​​concert photography makes even in low light still acceptable images. With my existing lenses I was bound to Nikon and because the New should also have a reasonable video function, was at this time only the D7000 in question (D600 & D800 were not yet on the market, D700 had no video capability).

The Nikon D7000 has accompanied me (last Max Herre, Klaus Doldinger, etc) and together with the Nikon ED AF-S 80-200 00, 1 on various tours and big stages: working quite well 2.8D.
For small clubs, backstage areas and Tour docs where it often has much less light, but I wanted something more light intensity and to present you need a FX sensor

Model policies Nikon:
What I need is a small and robust DSLR, quick and easy to use, both manually and automatically with top performance at high ISO range.

Unfortunately Nikon has nothing corresponds fully to my wishes and at the end is a buy compromise.
- The Nikon D4 is just too big for tour documentary and backstage (and absolute in the price superclass)
- The Nikon D800 has much too much resolution for this application and the associated disadvantages. In addition, it is also not just filigree.
- The Nikon DF would the ideal very close, would have the functionality of the D610 and the AF points of the D4
- The Nikon D700 is getting only used and does not stop with the sensor of the D610.

So I decided to Nikon D610 as they came to my wishes to others.

Nikon D610 vs. D7000
The Nikon D610 feels almost like a Nikon D7000 to (ursprüglich I wrote exactly). The few millimeters the D610 is more open to me hardly, however, can measure it. The surprised because a few years ago the power exchange was felt also in size and weight. DX to FX was about as if by an electric drill on a Hilti rotary hammer wechselt..das you felt not only that you could already see from afar.

The Nikon D610 can therefore now claim that the inside that counts and on which I will return.
Important for me is the high ISO range and by that I mean Iso 1600 6400 in conjunction with high-speed lenses.

The Nikon D7000 I have to ISO 1600 made quite good pictures and I find that this camera very good about it until Iso 2000 is dependent on the light.

Most ISO comparisons on the Internet, I find not very practical, as is very often turned up in daylight or white light, the ISO. The results are in many cameras quite well what abruptly changes when you go to warm light with a high proportion of red (light bulbs, candles).

On stage and in clubs, I often deal with this light, and therefore I show a comparison of the two cameras under incandescent lighting (Pictures in Orinalgröße can be seen on my blog, just bogenheimer.wordpress googling). Based on the record, everyone can make yourself an idea of ​​the noise performance of the two cameras under the same recording conditions.

As hoped and as might be expected, the D610 significantly lower noise at high ISO, and especially in the critical warm light. With Capture NX2 can be explained by very careful noising a further improvement can be achieved. The new tool allows noising 2013 luminance noise and color noise reduction separately.

Comparison ISO 100
But how the two cameras behave in normal Iso area, ie outside the extreme areas.
To this end, I have tried to choose an almost identical image.
Lens, iris, etc. are identical (pictures on my blog, please bogenheimer.wordpress googling)

Looking at the results, so the Nikon D7000 seems a little sharper and the D610 would pick something more subdued. To sharpen then carefully, you realize that in the D7000 has slight noise begins while the D610 has a little more reserve.

Ease of use:
The operation is almost identical for both cameras. A few minor differences exist, such as zooming in and out, as well as the Video button. Everything else can be individually and identical set and I recommend in this context definitely take a look at the manual.

Under the hood hiding in the D610 a few more features (time-lapse photography, etc.) which I shall not detail because they were not buying tsche ident for me.

Personally, I appreciate the relatively small, lightweight bodysuits while other photographers prefer large, heavy cameras. Who the D610 is too small, it can inflate with a handle.

AF fields
The Nikon D610 features the same AF module as the Nikon D7000. This results in the D610 to a lower coverage viewfinder, a subject that is often discussed and controversial.

Of course I would have liked a AF module as the D800, but that there is no halt in the D610 and the D800 does not come to my photograph in question, I had already indicated.
Is it pretty close to the subject, for example, in portraiture, the narrow AF fields are harmless. Taking some distance, then you realize the torso portrait, that one can put no AF point on an eye, so you have to pan. This is grayed out no problem at f 1.8, it is then but already difficult as it quickly captures a blur when panning.

I think that now is not dramatic, since I as an analog photographer and the medium format only one AF point in the center have, but a loss of comfort is there.

Conclusion:
My conclusion is that a practitioner far from any laboratory values.
I think that the cameras in the range 100-800 ISO are so close together that the differences in presentations on the Internet (forums) or even when printing in normal size can not be seen. Is it then values ​​in the areas of high ISO, so the FX sensor D610 is clearly forward.

In addition to these high iso Features of FX sensor also enables a smaller depth of field (with the same focal length) as a DX sensor, which is considered by portrait photographers advantageous.

Not to mention would be the larger viewfinder brings a FX sensor itself,

My expectations for the D610 (High ISO performance, less depth of field than DX, larger viewfinder) have been fulfilled.

Whether a fundamental change of D7000 / D7100 to D610 but worthwhile for the amateur, essentially depends on them he / she photographed from what.

Who does not Iso area is on the way in the high and not the scarce depth of field investigated could be a disappointment for a change, because it will find no difference in the picture quality in the normal range.

Pictures:
The concert recordings on my website are all made with the D7000 (please just bow Heimer googling)
Compare photos in full resolution on this review can be found on my blog (please bogenheimer.wordpress googling).

Review:
I rate it with 5 stars, because the camera fully met my expectations (but not all my wishes)

Juri bow Heimer, 12.2013