UPGRADING

sold my d40 to upgrade, which is better: d80 or d500?

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Permalink Reply by ahkfoto on July 6, 2009 at 6:33am

d80

Permalink Reply by Larry Van Valkenburgh on July 6, 2009 at 7:05am

What about the D90?
Go to the Nikon website and check out the features and then choose what best suites your needs.
http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Digital-SLR/index.page

Permalink Reply by Michael Garrison on July 6, 2009 at 10:31am

The d80 is no longer in production and may be hard to have serviced should a problem arise. The d90 is a bit more expensive, but has current technology and support from Nikon, provides some nice enhancements over the d80 and gives you a glimpse of what is possible with a d300 and its progeny.

IF you are willing to take a risk that the d80 will not fail (a safe risk from what I have read) look for one on ebay or online and spend the difference on better glass.

Permalink Reply by John McCosh on October 14, 2009 at 1:32am

I don't agree with your coment that the D90 is a glimpse of what is possible with a D300. I believe the D90 is every bit as good as the D300 for around half the cost if not better. Granted the D300 has 54 point focus to the D90's 11. And also the D300 has better image quality at higher settings and is of a more solid build, But general use I belive the D90 will take exactly the same image's as the D300.

Just my view, But then I did buy two D90's instead of one dated D300. I bought my D90's before the D300S was realised. The D90 has quite a few enhancments over the old D300.

John

Permalink Reply by Jack J Williamson on July 6, 2009 at 1:08pm

I have a D80, 18-55mm vr lens, 55-200mm vr lens, tripod, lowepro backpack, remote release for sale. All of this equipment is one year old and is in excellent condition. If there is ever a problem with nikon products they can be sent to nikon for repair.
contact me if you are interested.

Permalink Reply by Fred on July 6, 2009 at 1:43pm

The D80 is old technology and if you will be shooting in low light conditions, the pictures will end up noisy if the exposure is out.
The D5K is very good, uses the latest technology and used in low light conditions will only produce noise at high ISO. There is one problem in that it will not auto-focus, only manual focus.
The D90 is the logical step to make unless you go for the D300 or its replacement that is due shortly.

Fred

Permalink Reply by Jeff Hatcher on July 15, 2009 at 8:35am

The D5000 does not have a built in auto-focus motor, but supports Auto-focus if the lense has the built in AF motor (AF series of lenses). Great in low light conditions, and the flip-down screen is pretty handy.

Permalink Reply by Peter A. Gibson on July 21, 2009 at 5:00pm

Have you thought of a good used D2x. That is what I did and I am very happy with my choice. I had it checked out, replaced the shutter and had the firmware updated. Now I have a very good camera and the price was right.

Permalink Reply by Ken Knight on August 9, 2009 at 9:00am

D90 or D5000 both are 2nd genaration digital technology, Hopefully upgrading mine soon.

Permalink Reply by Ken Knight on August 30, 2009 at 9:20am

So true, that what I'm doing right now. Hopefully D90 are going down soon. Like the 4.5 fps, great for HDR pics.

Permalink Reply by Fred on August 31, 2009 at 5:20am

Ken

This has bugged me all day. Can you please explain how 4.5 fps works for HDR? I always thought you set up bracketing for HDR or better still take about 5 different exposures of the same picture and blended them together.

Permalink Reply by Cassandra on October 26, 2009 at 6:53am

Maybe with 4.5fps, the camera is able to clear the buffer faster and that means less chance for movement (if handheld) between bracketed frames (even if just three)? But, there's still a problem with the longer exposures in bracketed sets- a tripod would help more than a quicker camera.