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...with a friend's D200 :D and it is indeed an awesome camera, I do really like mine but the D200 is surprisingly nice (ok, so I'm not that surprised, I knew it was nice already). love the viewfinder over-lay/focus point selection too since I've never experienced that before its a neat trick - not sure if it would get in my way or not but the '3rds' divisions does help, and its quite big to look through too - lots of info in there - very nice.
tempted? certainly. If some *rse nicked all my kit - apart from hospitalising them - I'd seriously consider it.
would I change right now? nope, but its nice to know whats about.
seems to have lots more buttons to press than mine - ok so I'm not familiar with them all but I quite like the way they're all on the surface and not a menu dive away as in some cameras. In all its a nice pro-feeling camera. I doubt there's much difference in IQ (given identical lenses) between 10 and 8mpix, as the girls say; its what you do with it (i'd like to make it clear I've never had that said to me :naughty:).
everyone probably knew all that but I just wanted to say I now 'get it' regarding both makes, both work exceptionally just different approaches. And out of usability I think I'd go for it if I was starting from scratch, over the 30D and 5D...the 400D just threw the rule book out and beats most budget cameras. !
Anyway, thats my toupee on the matter of the D200.
 
that title got me thinking of something else :o

The D200 looks great - just think "8 FPS No noise at high ISO's" over and over to turn yourself off!
 
hehehe, or "noise above 100" would do the same thing...
no, I give it credit, I've seen some awesome results in the right hands - 'tis a camera quite worthy of respect in the right masterful hands (but then any camera would be fine there I guess) also like how it can take almost every other nikon lens out there not just current AF ones...nifty that.
 
damn you shiato, now i want one more. must tell myself i dont need it and the 300mm 2.8 was a better choice.
 
What you really want is to try out my D200 with the 300mm 2.8 :D
 
ooooh, yes please. 5fps, surfing... i think so! all i need is a 1.4x converter.
 
Honestly - how often does anyone here actually need anything over 5fps? I've been on this forum for a while now and I've seen nothing here in all that time that would indicate a need for high fps rates. Anticipation and correct shutter release is the key to good images of moving subjects. Anything else is just pure laziness on the part of the photographer... Letting the camera do it all for you is no substitute for good camera-handling drills...
 
Have to agree with Rob. Even though my 1D does 8.5 fps, on the rare occasions I use it I tend to fire in bursts of 2 or 3 shots and that's usually for flying birds. Who wants a string of identical shots? Also given the rate at which you can knock up shutter actuations at that speed, you can use up the shutter life of even these cameras pretty rapido. ;)
 
totally agree about timing. i find it easier to time it and get one good one that fire a high speed burst (back when i had 5fps that was). only reason i'd like it is shots like this one i took last year, but it looks ok on 3fps:

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That was 3fps? Good that, but anything faster and you'd have to 'lose' half the shots as they'd be too crowded together... and if you try that in a wooded section, you'd better have a massive Quantum pack for your flash as it'll run out of juice halfway through the sequence...
 
I am in love with my D200 oh and my Barry :love: I had to up the ISO to 400 when we couldn't use flash, at the wedding we covered on Saturday and the shots are fine, not much grain, certainly not enough to be worried about. The D200 does just what I want it to do :)
 
Arkady said:
That was 3fps? Good that, but anything faster and you'd have to 'lose' half the shots as they'd be too crowded together... and if you try that in a wooded section, you'd better have a massive Quantum pack for your flash as it'll run out of juice halfway through the sequence...
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yeah, i noticed that! and they don't come cheap eh. i think that sequence worked well as it's a sizeable gap so plenty of airtime, anything smaller and 3fps doesnt really cut it.
 
I rarely use the 8fps available to me - yes a little ott and I do agree to some extent that its more the skill of the photographer that should be relied on rather than the equipment... but it is fun though :D
on a more serious note, I doubt I'd have got this without it:
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I did have to pre-focus for this and timed it so the bird crossed that line at the right time - I usually ended up with a shot either side of the focus line and one in it or just off the edge of it. and at even 1/1500+ they move so fast to cause a little blur!
 
I certainly don't use the 5fps my D200 offers. Most I ever use is continuous low, and then it's often set at 2fps, not three (I likes being able to change that, I do).

But then, the frame rate was never a selling point for me, so...
 
If I'm being honest. If I had researched the market before buying into Canon's SLR range last year, I could have easily become a Nikon owner.

The only reason I went Canon is that everyone I knew had one, and the 350 was bang in my price range.

Although I must say since upgrading to the 30D, I've found the extra couple of fps useful in a few situations.
 
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