I was trying to convince a friend that the D200 he bought from me was NOT a 5hi++y camera, and that all it
needed was a decent lens on it to shine. I sell DSLRs with a starter lens to keep the costs down and make sure
that they can start shooting right from the post office. And some people have even upgraded to a better lens at
the time of purchase. I told him that while he was right, the D200 struggles at high ISOs owing to it's age,
at no time should he ever believe his camera sucks. He wanted to do like me, shoot in bars at night. But
by the time he was ready to buy, all my D90s were sold, my D80, a few D50s, some D70s. I had a D40 and a
D200....that was his choice. I warned him that I was not selling him a 5hi++y camera, but that I was selling him
the best model I had LEFT. The price was right, so he didn't really argue until he couldn't get a decent shot off
inside a bar. I can only imagine what was going through his head then.
SO I took out the oldest thing I had, which happened to be a D100 I traded with Shark for, and put a nice
vintage Nikkor 50mm on it. I was confident it would do fine, and it did. But its easy to forget now that everything
has passed this model by, what a great sensor the early Nikons had. SO LARGE. SO FEW PIXELS. (really should
have performed better in low light, lol.) The lens really helped the photo appear to be higher resolution. Everyone
should know that you USE bodies and INVEST in lenses. This should make that clear. The pics are just testing shots,
but I was happy with the sharpness. The color and contrast could use a bump, but I did not want to edit these.
