{"id":1736,"date":"2010-09-22T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2010-09-22T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:07:10","slug":"nikon-announces-d7000-dslr-camera-with-full-time-auto-focus-for-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/nikon-announces-d7000-dslr-camera-with-full-time-auto-focus-for-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Announces D7000 DSLR Camera with Full-Time Auto-Focus For Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Nikon announced their newest DSLR camera, the <strong>Nikon D7000<\/strong>. \u00a0What&#8217;s unique about this camera is that when shooting video in full HD, the camera has full-time auto-focus, which means as you shoot video, the camera will do all of the focusing for you. \u00a0Up until now, auto-focus hasn&#8217;t been available in DSLR cameras&#8230;at least not when shooting full HD.<\/p>\n<p>The D7000 is a mid-range camera (not the cheapest, not the most expensive) with an expected price tag of $1,200 for the body only model. \u00a0It does have an external microphone jack and allows you to edit video clips directly in the camera. \u00a0It will also shoot pro-quality still photos and uses dual SD memory cards.<\/p>\n<p>While Nikon cameras haven&#8217;t received the same love for their video quality that Canon cameras have, the D7000 does up the bar with the new auto-focus feature. \u00a0It does not however have a swing-out viewfinder like the new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/canon-set-to-release-new-dslr-camera-the-60d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canon D60<\/a><\/strong> (then again, the Canon D60 doesn&#8217;t have auto-focus in video mode).<\/p>\n<p>The D7000 is expected to be available in mid-October. \u00a0If you&#8217;d like to see head to head video tests of Canon vs. Nikon cameras, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zacuto.com\/shootout\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent demonstration is here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Nikon announced their newest DSLR camera, the Nikon D7000. \u00a0What&#8217;s unique about this camera is that when shooting video in full HD, the camera has full-time auto-focus, which means as you shoot video, the camera will do all of the focusing for you. \u00a0Up until now, auto-focus hasn&#8217;t been available in DSLR cameras&#8230;at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[681,682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}