THE NIKON D200

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Every one seems to be mighty pleased about Nikon's new SLR - D200 released a week ago. Nikon seems to have got their features right in this camera. The features look good, especially in areas that are Nikon's strong points, such as a rugged body and continuous shooting. Also available are some things that were sorely missed in the lower end models like ISO 100 and 11 point AF. And 10.2mp looks just good enough. Many people seem to be happy with the pricing too($1700). It is difficult to say if it can be a good match for 5D, since one of the popular features of Canon EOS 5D is its full frame sensor where as D100 still has a crop factor of 1.5, but D200 is priced much less than 5D.

As usual see dpreview for technicals, but Ken Rockwell has a good user review of the camera.

The dSLR race between Canon and Nikon seem to be continuing. Nikon always makes the good beginning but Canon follows up very soon with something much superior. When the D70 was launched, it was a much superior dSLR that left the 300D far behind. But Canon had a winner in 350D. A replacement for 20D is now long due. Is something coming up from Canon's stable?