Nikon D90 Review

The Nikon D90's live-view feature lets a user frame a photo with the camera's screen, as is done with a compact camera. It looks like any other single-lens reflex camera but the Nikon D90 is anything but that.

With this camera you have the the potential for absolutely stunning photos. Thanks to factors like..

• high-quality, interchangeable lenses and


• a huge light sensor and high-speed circuitry that reduces shutter lag to zero

The pictures you get from the D90 make other cameras look like the amateur hour.

The new D90 outshines the Nikon D80 (which will soon be discontinued)

The specs and features sit neatly between those cameras, too. The Nikon D90 has a 12.3-megapixel CMOS sensor that measures 1.14 inches diagonally (24 by 16 millimeters - only a hair smaller than on professional cameras. At start-up (or on command), the D90 gives that sensor a little shudder to shake off dust that may have entered the camera during a lens change, in that way avoiding shadowy specks in the photos.

This camera is smarter than the user - thankfully - so anyone can take pictures that blow minds and create legends.

This camera is lightening-fast, too. Autofocus is practically instantaneous, there is absolutely zero shutter lag (the delay after the button is pressed) and you can snap 4.5 photos a second for as long as you keep the button pressed.

There are some new features:

• a smart calendar that lets you hunt down photos by date, right on the camera


• an effect that simulates the spherical view of a fish-eye lens


• a jack for an external G.P.S. receiver that is coming from Nikon (for geotagging pictures)


• a function that straightens off-kilter horizons


• face-recognition autofocus and a whole lot more

And that's not even the really big, exciting
news!

The Nikon D90 is the first SLR. in the world that can record video and high-definition video. Stunning, vivid, 720p, widescreen, 1280-by-720, 24-frames-per-second video, with the color and clarity that only an S.L.R. can provide.

But there's something much bigger going on here. Remember: any control, effect or lens that's available to the Nikon D90's still photos is now available for your videos.

You have the ultimate in creative freedom that you don't generally have on a camcorder: control over focus, depth of field and exposure; special effects like fish-eye, monochrome and vivid; and excellent image stabilization when using a Nikon VR lens.

Here's another real mind-blower - you now have a video camera that takes interchangeable lenses. Before the D90, if you wanted a hi-def video camera with removable lenses, you'd pay $7,000 for the camera alone, and another $7,000 to $20,000 for each lens.

Meanwhile, the zoom ring gives you far more zooming control than a typical camcorder does. For example, you can do a snap zoom, from 1X to 10X, in half a second.

Now then, before you say "action" a word of warning: it's not a camcorder.  What it is though is the ultimate SLR digital on the market today. 

Enough said,...I'm racing to the store and I highly suggest you follow me...