Help Choosing my New Camera...

[Arcusmedia]

Hey guys... I am looking at buying 2 new cameras... one for events and one for portraits...

I am looking at...

60d and t2i

or

d5100 and d7000

I have rented all four and tried them all and must say I love them all..
I do not have more lens of one brand then the other...
I shoot alot of events and need something great with low light.

Can any of yall recommend one vs the other... ( not to make this a cannon cs nikon thread!

[RexGig]

My wife is very pleased with her D7000 in low light. (Nighttime low light is her work environment, though not event-shooting.) I bought it for her after doing much reading on the subject, with particular attention to low-light performance. She shoots mostly manual, with flash, but also does long exposures with ambient light.

She used an issued D300s, and then an issued D200, before the D7000. (A rule change allowed her to start using a personal camera, rather than only the gov't-issued cameras.) She asserts that the D7000 focuses better in low light than the D300s, and far better than the D200.

I have only shot a few images in low light with her D7000, and have not done side-by-side comparison, with fairly equivalent lenses, against my 7D or 5D Canons, but the
D7000 is certainly quite good at finding focus with both of my wife's lenses. (50mm 1.8 AF pre-D Nikkor and 18-200mm Tamron zoom.)

A BIG thing to keep in mind is that the D7000 has the three lights in the viewfinder to assist in manual focusing, one dot with two arrows, not just the single dot of lesser Nikons. This trickled-down from the professional D2/D3/F6 level of cameras, and made me think about switching to a D7000 for my crime scene photography. (I often focus manually in low light, particularly with my macro lens.) No brand prejudice here; I love my F6 and FM3A Nikons.

This just my $0.02; with the understanding I do not shoot events, and am no kind of expert at anything. My wife has been shooting in low light since at least the early 1990s.

[Arcusmedia]

My big thing is I want to be able to capture all the club lights along with the subject minus all the noise....