Nikon - D50 Digital Camera Review

The Nikon D50 is a very good perforner on the market of digital single lens reflex camera's. Nikon is a well known brand and therefore the Nikon D50 at the introduction was allready a winner. Compaired to other Nikon DSLR's in the price range (approx $ 700 body only for the D50) the D50 has a few things different :

- Just one command dial on the back (in M mode you set the apature while holding the e/v button and scrolling with the major command dial on the back. personally i don't miss the secon command dial (like that of a D70(s) )

- New Auto focus mode , AF-A (it also has AF-S and AF-C) in AF-A the camera detects if the objects are moving or not , if it detects motion it switched to AF-C (continoius focus) else it stays in singel autofocus

- a slightly higher medium resolution compaired to the D70(s)

- only 420 AF lines but a higher field range , with 5 AF focus points

- Child mode , this is fine for shooting childern/todlers..

Size and weigth is light and small, but wehn you compair it to other brands it still is sturdy looking , beefy enough to have a good grip, and heavy enough to feel you have a decent product  in your hands.

But what some people do not know is that the D50 has excellent iso performance, it barely lacks noise , even iso 1600 is still usuable where on a D70 800 iso is barely usuable , the D50 clearly wins

One thing the D50 is good at are te results direct out the camera , barely no tweaking is necessairily .

some say that the D50 is entry level based but it outperforms many other nikon digital body

a very well product also very much recommended