wen_lin Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 I have handled a pre-prod sample of the D200 late last week and boy was it good. I work in a camera store and the rep came in with a D200. Was I rap ! I wasn't allowed to put a CF card into it but the camera was able to store and review images on the LCD. I don't know if I am allowed to say too much, but the camera handles very well, much like an F100. It might handle like an F6, but I have not handled an F6 before so I can't comment on it. One thing I can comment on: There will be less jobs for moderators on silly threads about viewfinders. The viewfinder on the D200 is really good. It is at least as good as the one on the D2X. I did not get teh chance to compare them side by side, but after I used the D200 I looked through the one on the D2X, the D200 viewfnder seemed a little bigger. but i might be wrong. I used the camera in moderate lighting with the 18-200 VR. Lens focus fast, but I had not time nor means to test the VR. Frame rate much like the 20D, mirror slap is not as sloppy as the F80, but not as strong and heavy as the D2H. In a nutshell: "Gentlemen/Ladies, Start saving your pennies" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickpro Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 " It might handle like an F6, but I have not handled an F6 before so I can't comment on it." Why do you even bring it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wen_lin Posted November 11, 2005 Author Share Posted November 11, 2005 Because I was told by the rep that it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka_nissila Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 The viewfinder image is bigger (it's in the specs) but that doesn't alone determine the quality of it. A number of people are saying though that it is good. As to the sillyness of threads about viewfinders, it is obviously because of these complaints, that Nikon would go to the trouble of fixing it. Besides, everybody have sold their manual focus lenses anyway, so Nikon doesn't need to produce coke bottle bottom quality viewfinders any more. Time to cash again from the pockets of D70 owners. Me, I'm hoping for Katz Eye to finally figure out how to shim their focusing screen for the D70 and use that. Don't feel like paying for a new camera just because something wasn't in place in the D70 and wasn't. If they don't come up with a new screen, I guess I'll have to make it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka_nissila Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 meant: something that should've been in place in the D70 and wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ky2 Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 WHAT? Ilkka? You're not getting a D200?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 You can say anything you want to, Lin: any NDAs on the D200 have expired. I still use a couple of AI-S lenses on Nikon DSLR cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wen_lin Posted November 11, 2005 Author Share Posted November 11, 2005 "If they don't come up with a new screen, I guess I'll have to make it myself." Ilkka, you might even make a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickpro Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Ilkka, can you make on for the D100? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickpro Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 "one" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 It will be here soon so I will find out for myself and draw my own conclusions. Did it say D200 or D200s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 "Besides, everybody have sold their manual focus lenses anyway, so Nikon doesn't need to produce coke bottle bottom quality viewfinders any more." Some in this forum strongly advocated and did that. Me, I was the buyer of some of the select manual focus lenses that were sold due to the ill advice and propaganda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 anyone want a 105f2 MF or a 75-150 series E MF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Got them both, Eric. BTW, it is 105/2.5 that is a manual focus lens. The 105/2 is the fabulous DC nikkor (i have that as well). If I were you, I will hold on to them for a little while longer, let the prices go up after the D200.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msitaraman Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Let it not be forgotten that the older 105/2.5 is a fabulous lens too-one of Nikon's best ever, in fact... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 thanks Vivek. it may be the best but i don't use the thing, i want the current 105, so out it goes... i do recall the glory days of that lens with the F3/MD4, a real set-up void of electonics and automation...sniffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christiaan_phleger___honol Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Um, Funny, I remember the days when the F3/MD-4 combo was chided for being Too Electronic... "What!? A Pro Nikon with Auto Exposure AND an Electronic Shutter?! The Blasphemy! It'll never do! They'll Fail ALL the time!!" Sigh...I make peope marvel with my Leica M4, "In fact, it uses NO batteries", and then they Gasp incredulously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_s Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I remember when the Nikon F3 first came out, reading about it in Popular Photography and Modern Photography magazines. The big development was the radical use of an LCD readout. The big query, back then, was whether the LCD's in the camera would last a few years, or would they need to be replaced after a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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