Just to be sure that anyone actually interested in the D7000 doesn't taken anything I said seriously, here's a quick rundown of my FUD.
From what I've seen, the focus and zoom wheels on lenses for it work backwards. They work oppositely the way that Canon lenses work. It always confuses the heck out of me when I use a Nikon. The lenses also mount the opposite way.
It's not compatible with Speedlites. Speedlite is the term Canon uses for their flashes. Nikon calls them Speedlights.
It won't work with newer CF cards. As Kyle noted, it uses SD cards, not CF cards. I through the word "newer" in their as a misdirection.
It won't mount on RRS ballheads (or many other brands) without an adapter. Sadly, no one has adopted my idea of making camera bodies in a shape that works directly with Arca-style quick release systems, so you have to buy a bracket. If you like L-brackets, this adds a considerable expense to each camera.
It's completely incompatible with all OEM lenses except Nikon's own lenses. That even includes Sony lenses, despite the rumors that Sony is making the sensor. OEM stands for original equipment manufacturer - in other words, the maker of the camera. Obviously, Canon, Sony, Olympus, or Pentax lenses won't work with it or vice versa. The non-sequitur about Sony making the sensor is just their to add to confusion.
The sensor, by the way, only records reds, blues, and greens. All other colors (even common ones like flesh tones) need to be made by combining the reds, blues, and greens. I also noticed that, while they claim to have something like 16 million pixels, half of those pixels can only see green. This is true of all DSLR sensors other than Foveon sensors. The megapixel count is the total number of pixels, but each pixel is either red, blue, or green. There are two green pixels for every one blue or red pixel because our eyes are better able to distinguish different greens. Each pixel gets converted from one color to a triplet of colors by software that infers the other colors from the pixels around it.
I have no idea how people plan to get good white balance when virtually all of the lenses for it are black. Just nonsense.
It also comes in only one body style (shutter button on the right), so they have basically written off the artsy left handed crowd. I've never seen a lefty camera. I guess handling the camera doesn't really require fine motor skills and it is much cheaper to make and stock them only one way. I've never heard a lefty complain about it (not that I'd listen to their petulant whining anyway).
Even the video has issues. Rumors have leaked out that the video will have black bars on the top and bottom when viewed on a TV that isn't "widescreen". I've heard this complaint about widescreen movies and HD video cameras. I'm always galled by the "cropped to fit your old TV" versions of movies being called "Full Screen/"
Good luck even taking good video. I heard that the viewfinder goes black while you are recording. All-in-all, you have to wonder what Nikon was thinking this time. Dedicated video cameras use an electric viewfinder so that you can use it while recording. Most DSLR's use a mirror in front of the sensor to send the image to the viewfinder. When the sensor is in use, the mirror is moved and you can no longer see through the viewfinder. I think Sony has a translucent mirror on some of their new hybrid cameras so that it can stay down while you are filming. Canon did that for a sports shooter camera back in the film days. It works great, but your viewfinder is dimmer than normal and you get less light on your sensor. Life is full of trade-offs.
Truth be told, I think the D7000 looks like a great camera. For a Nikon, that is.
My original post, for those unfamiliar with the technique, is called spreading FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. It is standard practice in the software world. Companies compete on two levels - they announce software that doesn't actually exist yet (vaporware) so that you won't buy their competitors real software while they simultaneously criticize the competition for stuff that is usually totally pointless to make you nervous.
From what we've seen so far, I'll certainly take their 16mp APS sensor over their FF 24.6mp sensor! Or their first 14mp sensor (not the Exmoor one) - ugh! My initial comment was I had checked out some samples from the D7000 as an indicator of what to expect from the K-5 sensor. I'd say that it's more likely than not that they are both basically the same sensor (as is the A55 one), and that we'll see very similar performance from them (with the A55 being behind a little due to light loss from the mirror.) So far, it looks like it's a very, very nice sensor.
I needed that this morning
