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AWESOME CAMERA!!!!
- Pros: It's the best camera for the money you can buy. I read great reviews on the D50, so i bought one. My friend and I shot a wedding just 2 weeks after I bought it. He used a Nikon D2H. Afterwards, the photos with the D50 were as good, if not better than the D2H! Amazing!!!!
- Cons: HA! Good luck finding some.
- Other Thoughts: Just throw on an SB-800 flash as the master and have an SB-600 for a wireless slave, and you have a great cheap Creative Lighting setup. I'm sure Nikon will come out with some good accessories and add-ons for it later on, making it even greater than it is now.
Encouraging
- Pros: This camera will make you want to learn more about photography because the pictures made with the dial auto settings will help you create vivid pictures. This camera made me enroll in photography courses and introduced me into Art also, because with Adobe Photoshop you can do anything!
- Cons: It takes weeks for a beginner to learn to use the camera after reading the manual. I suggest you print out the manual in a larger format, it does help.
- Other Thoughts: High speed memory is a must
Camera is fantastic
- Pros: The guy who said this feels light and cheap must have been talking about the canon rebelXT. He obviously hasnt picked up the D50. It is very heavy and solid and after 4 months and thousands of photos it feels brand new. I have never owned anything so well put together in my life. And I buy almost every gadget there is. Battery life is excellent and I have never run out of juice, and I usually shoot over 300 pictures in one sitting.
- Cons: Lack of remote shutter release capability, although I heard some 3rd party makes a wireless remote of some sort. Also lack of Nikon battery grip.
- Other Thoughts: This camera is an improvement in my book over the D70 / D70S because it offers identical image quality, while giving up only a couple features that 90% of us wont use anyhow. And it is smaller, lighter, and less expensive. To think that this camera is better than the $3-$4K DX1 and DH1 blows my mind.
| General |
| Brand |
Nikon |
| Model |
D50 |
| Color |
Black |
| Dimensions |
5.2" x 4.0" x 3.0" (W x H x D) |
| Weight |
Approx. 1lbs. 3oz (540g) without battery, memory card or body cap |
| Package Type |
Single Lens Kit |
| Image Sensor |
| Image Sensor |
CCD |
| Image Sensor Size |
23.7 x 15.6mm |
| Gross Pixels |
6.24 MP |
| Effective Pixels |
6.1 MP |
| Resolution |
3008 x 2000 |
| Recording System |
| File Format |
Compliant with Design Rule for Camera File System (DCF) 2.0 and Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) |
| Recording Media |
SD (Secure Digital) memory cards |
| White Balance |
| White Balance |
Auto (TTL white-balance with 420 pixels RGB sensor), six manual modes with preset white balance |
| Viewfinder |
| Viewfinder Type |
Fixed-eyelevel penta-Dach-mirror type |
| Coverage |
Approximately 95% of lens (vertical and horizontal) |
| Magnification |
Approximately 0.75x (50-mm lens at infinity; –1.0 m–1) |
| Eyepoint |
18 mm (–1.0 m–1) |
| Dioptric Adjustment |
–1.6 – +0.5 m–1 |
| Focusing Screen |
Type B BriteView clear matte screen Mark V with superimposed focus brackets |
| LCD Monitor |
| LCD |
2.0" 130K |
| Focus |
| Focusing Modes |
Autofocus (AF): Instant single-servo AF (AF-S); continuous-servo AF (AF-C); auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A); predictive focus tracking automatically activated according to subject status
Manual focus (M) |
| Exposure |
| Exposure Control |
Digital Vari-Program (auto, portrait, landscape, child, sports, close up, night portrait), programmed auto (P) with flexible program; shutter-priority auto (S); aperture priority auto (A); manual (M) |
| Exposure Compensation |
–5 – +5 EV in increments of 1/ 3 or 1/2 EV |
| Metering System |
Three-mode through-the-lens (TTL) exposure metering
Matrix: 3D color matrix metering II (type G and D lenses); color matrix metering II (other CPU lenses); metering performed by 420-segment RGB sensor
Center-weighted: Weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in center of frame
Spot: Meters 3.5-mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centered on active focus area |
| ISO Sensitivity |
200 – 1600 (ISO equivalent) in steps of 1 EV |
| Shutter |
| Shutter Type |
Combined mechanical and CCD electronic shutter |
| Shutter Speed |
30 to 1/4000 sec |
| Self-timer |
Electronically controlled timer with 2 to 20 seconds duration |
| Flash |
| Flash Mode |
1) Front-curtain Sync (normal sync), 2) Red-eye Reduction, 3) Red-eye Reduction with Slow Sync, 4) Slow Sync, 5) Rear-curtain Sync |
| Flash Exposure Compensation |
–3 – +1 EV in increments of 1/ 3 or 1/2 EV |
| External Flash |
Supported |
| Lens |
| Lens Mount |
Nikon F Bayonet Mount |
| Lens Spec |
AF-S DX NIKKOR ED 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G Lens
Focal length : 18-55mm (approximates picture angle performance of a 27-82.5mm lens on the 35mm format)
Maximum aperture : f/3.5 - 5.6
Minimum aperture: f/22 - 38
Diameter: 52mm
Lens construction : 7 elements in 5 groups with one ED glass element
Picture angle : 76-degrees to 28-degrees at 50-feet
Minimum Focus: 0.9 feet throughout the entire zoom range
Dimensions (approx.) : 2.7 x 2.9 inches
Weight (approx.): 7.2 oz. |
| Interface |
| USB |
Yes |
| Power Source |
| Battery |
One rechargeable Nikon EN-EL3 Li-ion battery |
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Reviewed By: Bobby T on 5/29/2006
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
