jozz__b wrote:
Is there anyone that has made the move over from one to the other, in about the same range, that could share some advise?
I had the exact opposite experience (minus the gear problems). I got back into photography a few years ago and bought a Canon 650d because I used to shoot with Canon film cameras. I thought the camera was great, at first. Images were nice, but not spectacular. Borrowed a friends d600 and loved it! Images were outstanding. Controls were intuitive. Everything about the camera either worked better or made more sense, to me, than the Canon I had. I sold my Canon and bought a d7100 and haven't looked back.
It did take some experimentation with the d7100 to get my OOC jpegs looking good (I shoot RAW + jpg) but now, my jpegs are almost exactly what my RAW files wind up being processed towards. I'm wondering if maybe you just need to experiment with how you are shooting with your d7000?