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“I owned a Nikon F90X for about 8 years. I have used...”

Written on: 02/05/2005 by repro

Good Points
Excellent metering, powerfull motors, fast, very reliable, low maintenance, good in dark enviroment, fast shutter speeds.

Bad Points
Loud shutter, sometimes it takes longer to configure certain option-learning curve is longer to get used to it.

General Comments
I owned a Nikon F90X for about 8 years. I have used this camera for a wedding photography several times as a pro and it did a fantastic job. I am using it with Nikon sb28 speedlight, which is one of the best flashes I have ever owned, very reliable.

If you are looking for a light build camera, this is not one of them. Nikon F90x body is on the heavy side, but I like heavier cameras. The shutter is loud, so it can be disturbing in certain situations-like the weddings, but that's the way this camera is. Very reliable, solid, perfect metering in single or continuos shutter mode. I have tkaen thousands of photographs and the maintenace was just cleaning, nothing ever broke. It's servo motors can handle big zoom lenses like Sigma APO 500 with no problems. I took it with me to F1 racing in Toronto as well as to Woodbine Horse track and this camera never missed of miss-focused a shot. It has the advanced options like macro, HF or landscape, but I don't use them too often. Shutter speed ranges up to 1/8000 s, which is almost unusable, but there are situations you could used them altough not very often-like the F1 racing.

Overall, very reliable, worth the money bottom line pro camera.