Nikon D1

irishcrazyhorse

I have the chance to pick up a nikon d1 for 250 or less, I know it is an old camera with i think only 5.6 mp but the price seems good!
Im working with a d70s at the moment?
And mainly portrait work?


Mods feel free to delete this after a few replys,just interested to hear what people think?

Borderfox

Heres a review
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD1/

quilmore

I'd say to keep your D70 and get a lens with that money
camera isn't that good and battery life is awful

DaireQuinlan

Its sorta sad to see how the pro digital bodies deprecate so fast. You'd probably even now pay top dollar for an FM3a or F5, not to mention an F6, and probably will do for the forseeable future, but the 3000 euro camera from just a few years back is worth literally a tenth as much as it was...

The tragedy is that the build and mechanics of it are probably absolutely tip top, but from an imaging perspective it simply doesn't cut it anymore. Its a pity there wasn't some way of swapping out the sensors in these bodies, but then I guess Nikon and Canon wouldn't be riding high on a wave of upselling to the latest greatest super duper digi megapixel jobbie every 18 months

SOL

I'd give it a miss, I would say your d70s beats it in almost every regard except build quality and even at that given its age I'd imagine it has been through the muck once or twice and so there is no guarantee that it will be reliable still, how many actuations?

Either save for a D200 if you need a better built camera or buy another d50/70/80 if you need another camera...


Also according to the review it isn't even 3 megapixels

magicbastarder

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

The tragedy is that the build and mechanics of it are probably absolutely tip top, but from an imaging perspective it simply doesn't cut it anymore. Its a pity there wasn't some way of swapping out the sensors in these bodies, but then I guess Nikon and Canon wouldn't be riding high on a wave of upselling to the latest greatest super duper digi megapixel jobbie every 18 months

i was told by a guy in a camera shop that a company had developed a sensor to go in the popular film SLRs to upgrade them to digital, but sony bought them out and buried the patent. it may be true, it may not. he was also a lotto conspiracy theorist.

Borderfox

Would that be something like a digital back for medium format?

DaireQuinlan

Yeah there were a couple of wierd ideas floating around for a while, one had all the guts of the digital camera in a 35mm canister, with the sensor on a thin lip of silicon extruding from this, so it could be put into any 35mm camera. Never really got off the ground :rolleyes:

The early Kodak DSLRs were Nikon slrs (f90's IIRC) with the interchangeable backs removed and replaced with a digital sensor & battery pack.

D.

CamperMan

I have used the D1 for a few years now and I am happy with the results!