Digital Home Thoughts: C|NET Reviews the Nikon D200

"The Nikon D200, a long-awaited successor to the company's D100, offers serious amateur photographers and value-minded professionals a compact, sub-$2,000 digital SLR with many of the specifications, features, and build characteristics of Nikon's high-end pro cameras. Although not quite the junior version of the top-of-the-line D2X that some had hoped for, the D200 offers a significant step up from Nikon's low-end D70s and D50 models, with 10.2-megapixel resolution, a rugged moisture- and dust-sealed magnesium-alloy body, a large viewfinder, a 5fps drive mode, and bountiful fine-tuning and customization options. Accessories including Nikon iTTL external flash units, a Wi-Fi transmitter, a burgeoning line of digital optics, and third-party GPS units give the D200 enough versatility to compete effectively with its pricier midrange competitor, the full-frame Canon EOS 5D."



A solid review of the D200 from C|NET - it's one of the longer reviews I've ever read from them. The review comes out extremely positive for the D200 - in reading it, there were hardly any serious concerns, so the score of 8.3 out of 10 seems a touch low. One of their criticisms, however, is the lack of a TIFF option. Is that really an issue anymore? TIFF was important before RAW was common, and if you have RAW you have a lossless-compressed image, so why would you need TIFF? And their other Con was "JPEG artifacts crimp image quality" - but there's no mention in the article of what they're talking about that I could see. It almost seems like they're looking for things to complain about. Hey C|NET, that's my job! :lol:

I'm telling you, Canon had better coming out with a KILLER upgrade to the 20D soon, or I'm jumping ship to Nikon. The D200 looks like a fantastic camera, and I'm itching to buy one. Must...hold...off.