Just over six months after launching the D90 – the first DSLR to offer video capture – Nikon has released a second video-enabled model, the D5000. Positioned between the D60 and D90 models, this new DSLR combines features of them both. It’s priced $200 below the D90 and has the same 12.3-megapixel (effective) resolution but lacks many of the refinements of the higher-priced model.
For our field shots using the camera body plus the supplied AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G VR and AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED lenses, we decided to see whether shooting with the camera set on the full auto mode would use the exposure parameters we would select under a range of different conditions
