The Nikon D90 released about a week ago, this is the first digital SLR camera that features the ability to record 720p HD video, something really amazing since this is a digital still camera.  Up until this point you could buy a digital video camera and get OK quality stills (read that as crappy) or if you had a point & shoot digital still camera you could do OK quality video (read that as meh), but never both from an SLR, which you can change lenses on.

I won’t bore you with a review of the D90, enough people have done that.  What I will do now is share with you is real world footage shot on the D90, not something that Nikon has laced together to be fancy.  This first video is a short clip showing how what aperture can really do with video.  Shot with a 85mm f/1.4 lens, this camera is capable of capturing video footage that only a high-end digital video camera could do, not the cheaper quality ones.

The second video is shot with a 10.5mm fisheye lens, adding much more creativity to your video.

Remember, this is from a still camera that also does video!  I’m a Canon shooter, but this new feature from Nikon means that many first or even second time buyers of a DSLR can now take just one camera with them on vacation to do stills and video.  For budding photojournalists, this now gives them the ability to do short video clips in addition to taking still captures.

Videos courtesy of Dan’s Camera City on Vimeo.

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