Nikon D1 - Expert Reviews

Verdict: One area where the D1 is better than any other digital camera is speed for repeated frames. Sports photographers and photojournalists will love the fact that the camera can store 21 consecutive images in its internal memory. These may be taken at 4.5 fram

Award: Highly Recommended!

Pros: High Quality, clean, detailed images, Supreme build quality, unrivalled, all metal body, weatherproof seals, The way it feels in your hand, "solid mass", All rubber foot plate, Instant startup time, Built around two of the best film SLR's around, the F5 a

Cons: JPEG/TIFF artifacts thanks to poor in-camera sharpening algorithm (must use Low sharpening to get the most out of JPEG/TIFF), Pattern noise at higher ISO's more difficult to remove than random noise, Lacking lower sensitivity (ISO 100'), D1's colour set u

Verdict: The D1 is everything the professional photographer could need and a whole lot more, build quality is second to none, image quality is excellent with a few funnies which, as long as you know, you can work around.

Pros: Looks, feels, and handles like a professional camera.

Cons: Images need cleaning up.

Review summary: The Nikon D1 captures 2000x1312-pixel, 12-bit images using a 2.74 megapixel CCD (23.7 x 15.6mm) imager. Thanks to state of the art electronics and firmware it is able to process finished, high-quality JPEG images in the camera very quickly. For the purist