tell you a story for choosing something u think important, last week I walk into a camera shop to survey tripod prices. then I overheard a couple and a salesman conversation.

lady : "How come I paid so much to buy a dslr which cannot take nice picture? All the picture is so dark! my compact digital camera can snap picture even nicer than this 450D"

salesman : "u sure u know how to use it or not , MISS? this is dslr! u need to know how to adjust the setting and dslr is NOT to GUARANTEE you to get nicer picture! please tell me how you set your dslr before getting angry over nothing"

in fact, D90 or 550D both are good dslr. u should goto the showroom and grab it in your hand and feel it which one u like the most. Function wise all sure got pro and con. No dslr can be perfect. D90 never better in processing image quality than D5000 but both is same quality in fact. Skill is more critical in this matter.

Just D90 is better in term of lens compatibility for cheaper lens.

try to ask the shop in this link. they are selling D90 with 18-105 lens for RM3499 now.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1226457

This post has been edited by maideii: Apr 9 2010, 03:28 PM

D90 and D5000 is using same CMOS sensor it cannot provide "far more better" movie anyway and not much different in noise level processing. Even the professional review forum such as dpreview had proved it last year. See their sample picture.

yes ..D90 tend to overexpose which D5000 tend to underexpose even nikon claimed it to be the same cmos sensor used.