New Nikon D5000 DSLR Body

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Nikon D5000 DSLR body previewed.

Full details with photos.

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well the good thing of that, is Canon will seriously need to reconsider their pricing of the 500d :twisted:

just had a quick look online Nikon d5000 = £719 Canon 500d = £869, thats a hell of a difference in price for 2 cameras of near equal specs. Shocked

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The EOS 500D will be considerably cheaper once it hits the shelves, the MRSP is always unrealistically high.

I am a dyed-in-the-wool Canon user and have long envied Olympus' tilt & swivel LCD screens, and now that Nikon have jumped on the band waggon hopefully Canon will join in by the time the EOS 60D appears, by which time I may be ready to trade up from my 40D.

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HighlandSniper wrote:: The EOS 500D will be considerably cheaper once it hits the shelves, the MRSP is always unrealistically high.

Surely the same applies to the MRSP of the D5000?

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I'm sorry, I've been a Canon user for thirty years, I don't take much notice of Nikon prices.

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No, no. My fault. I thought you were questioning graham cherry's point about the high price differential of cameras with near equal specifications based on the Canon price being the MRSP. I was merely staing that the Nikon price is also the MRSP, so the differential is likley to remain the same, thereby maintaining graham cherry's initial concerns.

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If Canon's example is anything to go by, there's usually a pretty heft reduction. The MRSP of the new EOS 500D is well over £800, but I guess it'll hit the streets at around £550 and drop to £500-ish as supplies get better and the initial demand drops off.