In pictures the Nikon D80
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(Page 1)2. After a disappointing experience with a D200 (banding), I was very much looking forward to the D80 with its 2-channel sensor readout providing D200 resolution without the risk of banding. Now that I've seen it, I'm disappointed about a couple of things. First, the ergonomics look attrocious with the AF and self-timer button placed, oddly, on the rear right top corner of the body, where neither your thumb nor index finger can easily or quickly get to it while also turning the command or sub-command dial. Secondly, the decision to use SD cards - apparently exclusively - rather than CF cards is a deal breaker for me because I tend lose SD cards due to their diminutive size. Looks like Nikon is positioning this camera as the upgrade path for D50 owners, at the possible expense of its use as backup for D200 owners (although one can also argue that there isn't really another suitable backup for a system built around the D200.)
Looks like I'm going to pass again.
Posted at 3:56AM on Aug 6th 2006 by Nien Numb
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Your comments Nien strike alarm with me!
2. After a disappointing experience with a D200 (banding), I was very much looking forward to the D80 with its 2-channel sensor readout providing D200 resolution without the risk of banding. Now that I've seen it, I'm disappointed about a couple of things. First, the ergonomics look attrocious with the AF and self-timer button placed, oddly, on the rear right top corner of the body, where neither your thumb nor index finger can easily or quickly get to it while also turning the command or sub-command dial. Secondly, the decision to use SD cards - apparently exclusively - rather than CF cards is a deal breaker for me because I tend lose SD cards due to their diminutive size. Looks like Nikon is positioning this camera as the upgrade path for D50 owners, at the possible expense of its use as backup for D200 owners (although one can also argue that there isn't really another suitable backup for a system built around the D200.)
Looks like I'm going to pass again.
Posted at 3:56AM on Aug 6th 2006 by Nien Numb
"the decision to use SD cards - apparently exclusively - rather than CF cards is a deal breaker for me because I tend lose SD cards due to their diminutive size."
Can I just mention two things, you are supposed to insert the largest memory card you can afford say at least 1 Gig, and leave this card inside for ever!
using only the software supplied to you to download your images to computer. NOT a card reader.
Also you do not own any copyright on the images inside your CF or SD or any inserted camera card.
Not until you download your images to your computer. Another strong reason for not using multiple cards or indeed for losing them!
The only good point as I can see with this Nikon D80 is that it will force prices down of the earlier models, so forcing down competitors prices.
Posted at 10:47AM on Aug 10th 2006 by Frank Wallace
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Frank: you're mistaken on two pretty important points.
Copyright inheres in an image from the moment you click the shutter; be prepared to provide case law citations if you wish to be believeable claiming otherwise.
And *I*, at least, don't feel like plugging my expensive camera directly into my (consumer-grade) computer...
Plus, pros should always be splitting shoots up among several cards; cards do fail and get stolen...
1. FWIW; One thing that is different about the forthcoming Nikon D80 is that for the first time in a long while, Nikon may "one-up" Canon in DSLR's. In the last few years Nikon always seemed to be playing catch-up with Canon's DSLR releases. The D200 was a different enough product from the 5D and 30D as not to be direct competitors but the D80 may one-up the 30D and/or the 350D which may be direct competitors.
Posted at 2:13PM on Jul 28th 2006 by Michael Brochstein