![]() ![]() It saves to an SD/MMC card rather than CF. The new processing engine claims faster startup and shutter response, plus a faster burst rate of up to 100 full-resolution JPEGs at 3 fps, using medium-fine compression. The 10.2MP CCD imager, similar to that in the D200, provides a maximum image size of 3872×2592 pixels, with a 35mm lens factor of 1.5X.The image zoom in playback is now a much more convenient one-button operation. As on the older camera, the rear command dial and jog dial are within easy reach of the thumb, while the front command dial isn’t quite convenient to the index finger. The handling of the polycarbonate-bodied D80 is vintage D70-comfortable in the hand, with well-placed controls. (It’s a bit smaller, too.) It packs lots of technology derived from the Nikon D200 and D2x models, plus so many in-camera image-editing controls that it could be called Photoshop to Go. Nikon’s message with the D80, though, is not “Me too” but “Let’s rumble.” This 10.2MP DSLR, priced at $999 (body only, estimated street) might be called a D200 Lite, except there ain’t nothing lite about it-other than the weight, a fraction of an ounce below the trim D70s. Fine though the 6-megapixel D70 (later D70s) was, it was looking ever more dated next to newer 8MP and 10MP digital SLRs from Canon, Olympus, and Sony. If the Nikon D70 of 2004 was The Camera Nikon Had To Make, the new D80 is the Camera Nikon Absolutely Had To Make. ![]()
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