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Nikon-D200

Nikon - D200 Review

Price (MSRP): $1699
Megapixel: 10.2
Type: Digital SLR
Submitted by: David from La Mesa, CA
Date Reviewed: 7/12/2007
Months Owned: 6-11
Photos Taken: 2500+
Skill Level: Advanced amateur

What's Hot: All the knobs and buttons that you need...

What's Not: Heavy for hiking but worth it...

Review: This is the beast of DSLRs. Learn to tame it and your photos will be pro class. Honestly, it took me a week or so to start turning out photos that did not deserve the trash can. Reading the manual helped, but you just have to shoot a lot to get to "one-ness with the camera."

For example, WB set on "cloudy" with a EV of +2 seems to be the right combination for a "sunny" day. Similarly, punch up the CCD to "vivid" outdoors and "normal" for indoors.

The camera is rock solid, but getting your mind wrapped around it is a another matter.

As for lenses... get the Nikon 18-200mm VR and you will never take it off (at least outdoors).

Overall Ratings
Overall quality
10
Ease of use
8
Fit and finish
10
Click-to-click speed
10
Display quality
9
Flash quality
8
Image quality
10
Overall value
10
RATING SCALE: 1 = WORST 10 = BEST

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