twospoonsphoto's Review of Nikon D100
27th Sep 2004
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Image Quality
- Features
- Time Digital Camera OwnedOver 1 Year
- Battery Life
- Ease of Use
Solid Nikon workhorse camera, fast enough response for portrait and event photography, load you favorite Nikon glass and go.
Bad Points
Small sensor crops image, buffer fills fast if you shoot RAW files.
General Comments
I love the Nikon D100, it allows Nikon users to move their skills into digital with no learning curve on the image getting side. Photoshop CS is a must for the post-capture phase. I would like to be able to shoot more RAW files faster. Since they have superb post-capture flexibility and tweakability. However, if you shoot 4-5 RAW files fast, the buffer loads up and you are dead until they are all written out to the card. You might miss a lot of nice shots in that painfully long period of time (I'd say it takes about 30 sec to write a full buffer to CF - and I have very fast CF cards).
I shoot events, some wedding and sports, I have had no issues with slow response times or any lag.
"Motor" drive is not very fast, maybe 2 fps, but I don't use it. I used it once for the fun of it and it was pretty lame. I would not want to be doing really fast frame rate work with this camera.
I don't mind the crop factor that much, since it makes you teles a bit longer without making them slower - but for wide you will definitely need the big, expensive ultra wide zooms Nikon makes.
Hoping to go to a D2x - but need to make a few more bucks first!
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Web Links
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