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I'm a total photography newbies, I take awesome shots with my iphone 4s lol, but people think I have an "eye" for photography so I'm going to try to become a semi-pro.

I just need to know if the d7000 which seems to be a popular camera and modestly priced @ $1200 is what you guys would recommend. I'm aware that I probably will not understand or use 50% of the cameras ability but gradually I will.

It seems the d7000 is 2 years old, so I'm not sure if thats 'new' for you guys I just don't want to get something I will outgrow in a year or two.

Hell I'm open to take photography classes just to speed up the process, I really want to start taking nice photos especially on vacation I travel frequently.

Filming will be important on it as well.

I'm not looking for the best, just the middle thats priced affordable - under 1500, so the mk2/3 is out of budget.

I realize that to take it to another level I'd need to be lenses so I'm willing to splurge on that once I get a grip on things.