NYT Review of Nikon D90 - - New Nikon Holds A Secret

[Dover]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/technology/personaltech/28pogue.html?em

[DS1]

1. eh

Canon's 5D followup will slaughter it. That's my prediction, anyway. Most of this article is explaining SLR to the point and shoot crowd.

[ManiacJoe]

4. That would be like comparing apples to oranges.

The Canon 5D would be more appropriately compared to the new Nikon D700. The Nikon D90 is a consumer level camera more comparable to the Canon XSi.

[regnaD kciN]

2. This is an embarrassingly bad article...

...and, as to the vaunted "video recording" feature, I'll just repeat here what I wrote on DPReview.com's Sony forum, when a distraught owner asked why it couldn't be Sony instead of Nikon that introduced this feature: that it's because Sony, much like Canon, already produces high-quality DV and HD camcorders (both consumer and professional) and know enough to realize that the functional and ergonomic requirements of video recording are so incompatible with those of still photography that any "hybrid" will be a drastic compromise that will shortchange one of the two functions -- most likely video rather than still photography -- to the extent that will make it useless for serious work. Only Nikon (which has never produced a camcorder) is naive enough to think that such a hybrid will work. It might be O.K. for capturing a few "home movie" video clips to play back on your family room's neato new plasma HDTV, but anyone who's expecting this to turn them into Ansel Adams and Steven Spielberg (or, on a more modest scale, to simply be able to shoot a low-budget "indie" feature along with one's landscape photography -- both of which, I should point out, I've done, albeit on completely different equipment), is going to be doomed to disappointment.

[Dover]

3. Very good points, all.

Unless I'm confused about the new video function this new Nikon is offering, I thought Sony DID offer that feature in their low budget Cyber-shot DSC H2 models. And perhaps that is where it
belongs based on who is most likely to be drawn in by it and use it (the nonprofessional).

Yes, the all-in-one hybrids ask too much and deliver too little. More is not better.

[NashVegas]

5. Great Points

I sometimes do vids on my Fuji S6000fd. I don't call it the "Shakey Shakey-Cam" for nothing.