Nikon D90 Digital SLR Camera Review: “A Photographer’s Camera”

Dual reviews today of the Nikon D90 one from DPR and the other from Photography Blog. Simple conclusion, the D90 like the D80 before it is an excellent camera, perhaps the best enthusiast camera available according to DPR. The image quality is excellent with noise management equaling the Nikon D300 (at least to my eye). There was an interesting contradiction on metering, from Photography Blog:

…the meter handled almost any scene you threw at it very well, necessitating much less use of the exposure compensation function than I’m used to. Together with the excellent meter, Active D-lighting proved highly useful in photographing high-contrast scenes. The quality of the images captured by the camera was astounding, in terms of resolution, colour, tonality and signal-to-noise ratio alike.

-Photography Blog

but from DPR:

Our only real worry about the D90 is the matrix metering, which seems to be so strongly connected to the selected AF point that it allows highlights to clip a bit too often for our liking. There is an option to fine-tune the meter (and assign a different amount of correction to each metering mode), if you find it a consistent problem

-DPR

Maybe both are true? Anyway, all in all, you can’t go wrong with the D90.

Oh it shoots video too.

Read Photography Blog’s review here.
DPR’s review here.

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   Darkspore says:

   February 7, 2009 at 8:31 pm

   I just got my D90 in November 2008. Both observations from Photography Blog and DPR are true in their own ways. Matrix metering is accurate in most instances. I have tried spot metering and center-weighted as well and sometimes it blows out the highlights where you do not expect it.

   It is an excellent enthusiasts DSLR and I love it!

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   Patrick says:

   February 7, 2009 at 8:38 pm

   Darkspore,
   I’m glad you like it, and it does seem like the smartest choice for enthusiasts.

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