I'm currently selling my D7000. My wife is a photographer and I am her second shooter. We originally went with Nikon and I bought a D7000 and she bought A d800. Shortly after we changed our minds and switched over to Canon. Now we both use Mark2's. The D 7000 was by far my favorite camera out of all of them for it's easy button lay out, and high quality resolution for such a price. We kept it laying around as a backup camera but it was hard not to grab it for family photos. I'm not much of a coral photographer but I think this camera would do well under any circumstance.