Making any sense to pick up D1?

I just wondering if still making any sense to pickup D1? I just suprise to

found out that Canon 1D still worth $900-1000 while Nikon D1 only worth $350.

 

Why the price is so low on D1? Is technology goes so far beyond that pretty

much noise, function of a D1 is worthless in modern day?

The Canon 1d is more equivalent to the d1h or even d2h Nikon than the original D1. And

No, the D1 is way out of date.

The Canon 1d is more equivalent to the d1h or even d2h Nikon than the original D1. And

No, the D1 is way out of date.

The D1 uses Nikon's orphaned flash exposure system has lower pixel count, smaller lcd than the D50 which sells for 300-400 dollars used.

 

The D1 was introduced 1 year before the 1D. The D1x is more comparable to the Canon 1D as they were introduced near the same time. The D1x is selling for quite a bit higher than the D1.

 

The Canon 1D has a 1.3 crop frame vs. the 1.5 of the Nikon which means less noise, ability to use wide angle etc....

 

Picking up the D1 makes sense compared to the D50 if you need the extra frames per second or can use the extra accessories and build quality that the D1 provides.

You don't want one. Well, maybe YOU do, but there there is little point to owning one these days.

the nikon d1 is a paperweight at this point, unless all you need it for is lo-res photos for a

website. A D50 is a good cheap dSLR body.

 

Dave

D1

 

Poor battery, low resolution, poor image quality compared to todays entry level D50 and D40.

I've used D1 as well as D50. Get a used D50.

I found one in the equipment locker at work and tried it out. Having already used several other Nikon digital bodies I can say it was awful. Clumsy, slow, not much resolution. Had this been my intro to digital I'd have stayed with film. It was a cool gadget in its day because it was digital but it wan't a very good camera.

 

Rick H.

The D1 was announced in July 1999. I don't recall when it actually became available in the shops, but even if it was at the end of 1999, seven years have now passed. Seven years was nothing with film cameras, most film cameras had production runs that spanned 10 or 15 years. Seven years in digital is a lot of time. Anything produced today will be light years ahead of the D1.

 

You can still check out the D1's review on dpreview.com. They also have a gallery page on the following link, you can download large files and print them if you want to:

 

http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/nikond1_samples1/

 

Check reviews of other, more recent Nikon DSLRs and you'll have a pretty good idea how the D1 compares to the current Nikon cameras.

The first time I saw a D1 was at the Photo+Expo show in New York, in October 1999 and it became available for sale shortly after. The initial price was $5500 and it was mainly for news and sports photography, where time to press (or time to web site) is critical while image quality isn't.

 

Most people indeed stayed with film until affordable 6MP DSLRs became available. For most Nikon users, that meant the D70 announced just prior to the PMA in 2004; that was merely 3 years ago. I started two years earlier with the D100.

I see. I am not such a digital person. I had 1D from canon, used a month and dislike it (i am

so weird).

 

I happens to have a friend who has D1 and it sits there and unused. Since I was trying to

shoot some ebay photo, i ask him for it, and he says he would like to sell it to me if I like.

That is why I raise my question. Seems like borrow it will be just fine.

I have been shooting with a D1 for a year now and love it. $300 bucks, late serial number, very clean.

 

No, I won't make 16x20's with it, but I have MF gear for that. I rarely go beyond 8x10 anyway, and at that size or smaller the resolution is fine for me. It may be clunky, but it is fast, built like a tank, and once you get used to the user interface, it's sweet. My 2 year old can outrun her mom's D70, but not my D1. And I suspect the two weeks in an alternating damp and dusty tank bag this summer would have done in a lesser built camera.

 

You can work around it's faults - the bulky charger, short battery life, crappy auto white balance. A SB-50 Dx is $50 at keh, and works just fine. The DK17m eyepiece makes for a decent viewfinder. Meters with all my old MF Nikkors.

 

I wouldn't buy a second one, but I'm happy to shoot with it until the cost of a used D2h falls below $500 (another 2 years?). In the mean time I've scored a SB50, 17-35 2.8 and 35-70 2.8 for less than $600 combined (KEH ugly lenses, got to love em), and will keep on trying to memorize what all those custome function codes stand for....

 

HD

great attitude, Henry, have fun - that's what photography is supposed to be about....