In movie studios, pulling focus is a cinematic technique usually performed by someone other than the camera operator, who is too busy framing the image to attend to focus as well. Like the Nikon D40, you can change the AF point by pressing the Multi-selector on the back, which is nice, but it's too easy to do accidentally.

The Nikon D5000 ships with an updated version of the battery used by the Nikon D40 and D60, the EN-EL9a, a 7. As with the D90, each uninterrupted movie shot at 720p is limited to 5 minutes duration and 20 minutes for all other resolutions (the D7000 can do 20 min movies). Nikon has unveiled the D5000 upper-entry-level DSLR and we've prepared a full preview of the camera and its features. Is the extra optical oomph worth the upgrade over the iPhone 15 Pro’s 3x (77mm equivalent) telephoto?The invaluable Recent Settings Menu usually lets me find the item quickly so I can disable it and resume shooting. sensor and high-sensitivity between ISO 200 and 3200 (which can be extended to ISO 100 and ISO 6400 equivalent) for shooting in a wide range of lighting conditions, this camera makes it easier than ever to take great quality pictures. That's because one of the mirrors is actually an LCD, and when you remove its power source, it loses much of its reflectivity. Consumers should know up front that the Nikon D5000 focuses much slower in Live view than the all-in-one digicam that they're used to.

And for the first time, the Canon grip offers a little better hold than the Nikon D5000, whose finger-grip is a little small. It certainly beats using a 2- or 10-second self-timer to stabilize shots, because most often every second counts. The one final inconvenience to the Nikon D5000's articulating LCD design is that you have to remember to fold the screen up at least partway to set the camera down on a flat surface, or risk damaging the LCD and hinge assembly. And its into this maelstrom of DSLR proliferation that Nikon launches its latest baby DSLR, the D5000. Wide-area AF covers a broad area, and Normal-area AF features a single focus point that you can move around the screen.It's important for enthusiasts to know that the Nikon D5000's pop-up flash doesn't serve as commander flash for external SB-600, SB-800, and SB-900 flashes as does the D90. The Canon XTi I have at my desk is considerably faster in both modes, though it too is slower in auto-area AF, just not as slow. In other respects, the Nikon D5000's movie parameters are identical to the D90's - the camera records 1280x720-pixel, 24-frame-per-second motion JPEGs in AVI format. I enjoy shooting with consumer SLRs like the Nikon D5000 because as a father of three, I have plenty of opportunities to test how a camera will work for the average snapshooter. With most of the necessary usability comments now out of the way, we can get on to what I regard as the good news: The Nikon D5000 is an excellent image maker.