written by john. on 04/11/2002
Good Points
Nikon D100, Has a lot of excellent fine points and follows the family tree of there N80/F5. The first time you pick up the camera you feel that you have been there before, except their digital side. Which is a learning process.
Bad Points
The shutter response and the LCD window settings
General Comments
The shutter miliseconds response is so slow that when you try to photograph nature at the decisive moment, the shutter lag is just impossible to accomplish that. Any movement of your subject, and the camera does not capture what you saw. High speeds/fast film do not help. Every speed used sounds like a 1/10 sec. shutter speed and because of its slow response, and the moment you wanted is not captured. One good side to this is that you do not waste film.
I believe that the LCD settings are too cluttered and could be possibly made easier to use. The rocker button control needs your total concentration with the up/down/left/right movements really has you going. If I had known about that shutter lag before I bought this camera, I would have not done so.