10. Nikon

Nikon makes excellent DSLRs. As a film photographer I used Nikon SLR equipment exclusively. I still have my Nikon F5 body and a ton of great Nikon lenses. In the early days of the DSLR wars Canon captured my heart and Nikon has not won it back. I admit to having a Nikon D100 early on, but I sold it on eBay at one time or another to buy one of my Canons.

I’m not happy with Nikon’s refusal so far to make a full 35mm sensor based DSLR. I’d like to use my Nikon full-frame lenses on a full-frame Nikon DSLR. Contacts outside of Nikon tell me that it will happen some day. I hope it happens before I’m tempted to sell all those lenses.

D200

The D200 is a more than worthy replacement for my old D100. It’s well priced given the features. I like the feel of the D200 in my hands. It fits like my Canon 5D, with controls just where I expect them to be. With its built-in flash, the D200 offers features for pros and prosumers at a very good price. Speaking of price, I’ve noticed that D200 prices are coming down. That could be an indicator that a replacement is on the way.

D2Hs

I remember my first experience with the earlier model of this DSLR, the D2H. At the time I was using a 5 megapixel Nikon point-and-shoot. I brought my camera to a Nikon DSLR presentation at a local camera store. These fantastic poster size prints lined the walls. They were taken with the D2H and its 4.1 megapixel sensor and I knew I’d never get prints that size from the point-and-shoot. How could such a low megapixel sensor make images so much better than those from my Nikon point-and-shoot? The answer, as I mentioned earlier, was that the large pixels allowed for much larger, sharper, noise-free enlargements. There is no match for the D2Hs in the high-speed multi-image photo shooting business, not even Canon’s soon to be released 1D Mark III.

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