Nikon's D5000 is a curious beast. It boasts an unorthodox model name, packs a strikingly unique display and aims at an atypically small niche. In a way, it's a poor man's D90, but stopping there would ...

Flickr user Kadath got his mitts on the Nikon D5000 a day before Amazon is scheduled to make the new kit available to the masses, so of course he unboxed it and took ...

The D5000 comes with the following: We tested the D5000 as a kit with an AF-S NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens. This is the most popular kit option, though some retailers may opt to create their own ...

The good: Very good photo quality; fast; video capture; articulated LCD; nice kit lens; built-in wireless flash controller. The bad: Small, dim viewfinder; middling video quality; too easy to ...