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WARNING: Don't buy the D8. The new D9. 0 completely obsoletes it. If money matters, buy the almost identical D4.
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D9. 0 is a complete generation beyond the old D8. Please treat the rest of this review as an historical artifact, written in 2. Nikon D8. 0 vs. D2. D7. 0, D5. 0, D4. Canon 5. D and XTivs. D2. 00 vs. D7. D5. 0 Nikon D8.
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You'll still see the D8. When the D8. 0 came out in mid- 2.
I bought one immediately because it gave the same resolution as my D2. My D8. 0 is as small and light as my D7. D2. 00. Whoo hoo!
Time marches on, and the D4. D8. 0. The D4. 0 is even smaller and lighter, with the same perfectly good image quality as my D7. I prefer my D4. 0 for the great majority of times I don't feel like hauling my D2.
I bought my D8. 0 for portability, and my D4. I prefer the size and weight of my D4. D8. 0. The D4. 0's superb Up- Down- Left- Right - OK nav key is much bigger, better laid out and clicks with more certainty than the puny, mushy thumb key and separate OK button of my D8. D7. 0. You appreciate these more when you push them all day. Nikon has now dropped the price of the superior, and much heavier, D2. D8. 0. I see the D2.
D8. 0 for $9. 24, so for 5. D2. 00 is 1. 00% more camera, and that's ignoring any D2. Everything changes every few months in digital, and as of January 2. D8. 0 is in a precarious position: almost as expensive as the far superior D2. D4. 0, which is half the price of the D8.
Resolution has little to do with image or camera quality; metering, color and usability is everything.) My D8. LCD and viewfinder of my D2. D5. 0. It's the same price as the D7. This makes the D8. The D4. 0 is an even better deal at half the price if you're not often printing above 1.
The resolution of my D8. D2. 00 are nice, but only needed if I'm printing at 2. I bought my D8. 0 in the summer of 2. D2. 00 for traveling light.
I was right: my D8. I had to travel with it for the week, as I did at the beginning of October 2. Las Vegas, and the first week of November 2. New York City (photos).
Life moves on, and when I bought my D4. December 2. 00. 6, I find I always grab my D4. I want a small camera, and my D2. I want serious. Today my D8. If I only could have one of these three, the D8. But why compromise?
I make hundreds of shots a day and don't worry about equipment costs. I have all these cameras at my disposal, and I still grab my D4. At half the price of my D8.
D4. 0 is even easier to love than the D8. My D4. 0 is smaller, lighter, feels better in my hands because of its better rear controls and newer firmware, and gives the same results (megapixels are irrelevant) as my D8. Yes, I prefer my D4. If cost is an issue, get a D4. Hint: the 1. 8- 5.
D4. 0 is so good it's also all I use for family photos. Since the D2. 00's price has dropped and costs about the same as the D8.
January 2. 00. 7, and since the D2. I'd step right past the D8. D2. 00 for serious photography. The D4. 0 and D8. SD memory cards, not the bigger, older CF cards.
The D4. 0 and D8. D2. 00. Unlike my D2. D4. 0 and D8. 0 need varying exposure compensations to get correct exposures with different subjects and compositions. The D4. 0 and D8. Canon XTi and 5. D, while the D2. I prefer my D2. 00 if I'm doing serious photography all day, but if I'm spending more time carrying the camera than shooting with it, I grab my D4.
I just bought a Canon 5. D for five times the price, and I still prefer my D4. LCD and overall operation. The D4. 0 and D8. If I'm traveling for the week, I wrap my D8.
D4. 0 and Nikon 1. I'm ready for anything, and no one sees I'm packing. I'll jam my 1. 2- 2. Honestly, most of the time the weightless 1. I use with my D4. I'm not out specifically to make photos.
The D8. 0 and D4. D2. 00, but in exchange lack some of the more esoteric custom functions I love.
See my Performance and D2. D8. 0 pages for details. I've gotten hate mail for what some people misconstrue as thrashing on my D8. My D8. 0 is as good as it was 7 months ago; just that the D4.
D2. 00 has dropped in price. This is a good thing - I was elated when I paid $2. This is progress. Digital gear is consumable, unlike film gear which you'd use for decades.
That's why we pay as much for a plastic digital body as we used to pay for professional F5. We pay what we do for digital because we're not paying for the bricks of film we used to shoot. Sorry - as I've been telling you all since the 1. Digital equipment is a consumable. You buy it for it's immediate utility, and toss it (resell it) when something better comes out, which might be two months or two years.
If you want a lasting hardware investment, buy good lenses or stick with film cameras. I still use my 5. Linhof 4x. 5, which works as well today as it did 5. Nikon lenses I bought over 2. Even 5. 0 years ago my 4x. Linhof has been making the Technika since 1. Nikon had been making F- mount SLR lenses for over 2.
Each was a mature product back when I bought them. Practical digital SLRs have been out for less than ten years, so we're still in the very early stages, much like automobiles were back in the 1. We're going to look back in five years and laugh at whatever gets announced this year in digital cameras. Digital gets better every month, and only God knows what new gear is coming in March 2.
If you have something to shoot now, get what's available today and never look back. See also Managing Obsolescence. Obsolete doesn't mean discontinued; obsolete means that there are better ways of doing something. Inkjets went obsolete in 2. Fuji and Noritsu printers at every discount store, but people still buy and struggle with new inkjet printers. This doesn't mean that inkjets are bad; it just means there are better, faster and cheaper ways of making prints. This is me, you're probably different.
I don't photograph action, and the 1. AF sensors of the D8. D2. 00 are probably better for tracking things in motion than the three sensors of my D4. I haven't tried it. Firmware: Nikon has a new firmware update as of January 2. I've never bothered to install it; the original firmware is fine and I'm lazy. All of this review is using my original firmware.
D8. 0 vs. D2. 00, D7. D5. 0, D4. 0 and Canon 5. D and XTi. D8. 0 versus D2. D8. 0 vs. D7. 0 and D5.
Nikon D8. 0 Back. SPECIFICATIONS back to topvs. D2. 00 vs. D7. D5. 0 Specs Performance Lenses Lenses: Works. Nikkor AF lens ever made since 1. Meter won't work with manual- focus lenses.
Viewfinder: Big and bright, identical to D2. Much bigger than D7. D5. 0. A little bigger than Canon 2. D and 3. 0D. Glass pentaprism. Big, fat digital indicators on bottom, the same as the other Nikons and much easier to read than the lower- contrast, thinner digits in the 2. D and 3. 0D. Viewfinder: BIG; much bigger than the D7. D5. 0 and the same as the D2.
This means 0. 9. 4x magnification with a 5. Free, optional (via a menu) rectangular. The $3,0. 00 Canon 5. D requires buying and changing a focus screen!) I always leave my grid turned on: it's a big help getting level. AF: 1. 1. zones, same as the D2.
Nikon's AF has always worked great. It uses the Multi- CAM 1. Module, same as the D2. Nikon. claims some new focusing options. The center sensor can.
An. Auto- Select mode can choose AF areas automatically. I'm unsure how. new new is since the D2. Metering: 4. 20. segment RGB Color Matrix. Nikon now calls it "3. D Color Matrix Metering II." This is. D2. 00's 1,0. 05 segments, and still way more.
Back in the 1. 98. Nikon invented the. Matrix meter they researched how many segments were enough. They saw little to no improvement beyond five segments. All these segments are mostly for marketing.
They key. to metering accuracy is the wisdom in the firmware which. Shutter: Mechanical. Bulb. The D7. 0 had an additional electronic.
Flash Sync: 1/2. 00. D7. 0 and down from 1/2. D2. 00. This is. because the D8. D7. 0. My D2. 00. I wish the sync was 1/5.
Fast. sync is important, but all the other improvements over the D7. Menus: Customizable. You can choose what gets displayed and what doesn't. I doubt you can reorganize them to make sense, which is something I wish I could do on my D2. I explained in my D2.
Users Guide. Idiot Modes: Seven. The D2. 00 doesn't have these, and I never.
D8. 0. Flash: Built- in. TTL (the good system). Built- in flash also works as a remote commander. See How. to Use Wireless Flash. Frame Rate: 3. frames per second. The D2. 00 does 5 FPS, which is critical for sports, however I leave my D2.
FPS anyway for the still subjects I shoot. For pro sport shooters, get the D2. Don't worry about it for getting great shots of your kids in school sports. Buffer: Depends. on settings, since the camera clears the buffer about as fast as anyone can shoot.
At puny settings like Medium, Nikon claims 1. RAW. I've never needed more than a 9 shot. Sensor: 1. 0. Megapixel CCD, 3,8. MP. in the D7. 0 and D5. Standard DX sensor. Also makes 2,8. 96 x 1,9.
Medium and Small settings. ISO: 1. 00. - 3,2. Auto (1. 00 - 1,6. Nikon hides. ISOs over 1. Hi," so they call ISO 3.
Hi + 1." It's. the same thing. GOTCHA: The D8. 0 lacks the in- viewfinder. ISO display of the D2. I look at the in- finder ISO. I had always. wished my other cameras which lacked this had it. OK. this is one thing the D2.
D8. 0 doesn't. You can set this on the D8. HI ISO NR: There are three selectable levels of high- ISO NR. White Balance: Same as D2. Auto (TTL white balance with 4.
RGB sensor), Daylight. Tungsten, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Flash, and Shade, all with easy fine- tuning. Kelvin, and of course preset manual. Expodisc. The D8. The D2. 00 has 1,0. You only need a few, not hundreds.
Newer firmware always gets better, so the D8.