Nikon D200 (2005) / Nikon D500 (2016)

Nikon D200 (2005) / Nikon D500 (2016)

I've always had a thing for APS-C

very nice, is it true that the D200 uses the Kodak CCD sensor? I’ve always been fond of the CCD sensors in the old Olympus 4/3 system. If so, I have to keep an eye out for a D200. The D500 is excellent, I bought one new, sold it for no good reason and bought a mint used one a few months ago.

Archie

Yes, the Nikon has a CCD sensor (for the origin, I'm not sure)
The Nikon D500 is still hard to beat today. ;)

As much as I know, the D200 has a Sony sensor. Here is what Nikon Rumors think:
nikonrumors.com/2015/12/16/list-of-all-nikon-dslr-cameras-and-their-sensor-manufacturerdesigner.aspx/

JC

Glad to see you are here, Maoby.

Thanks! 👍🏻

Any love for the D100 and it's 6.1MP CCD sensor??

To each are Nikon

Nikon D100 (2002) / Nikon D200 (2005)

Nikon D100 (2002) / Nikon D200 (2005) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

really nice camera the D200, solid as a brick

Me, I like your avatar 👍🏻 😎

done with AI, it does actually look a little like me with one of my pugs

From Jan 2006 till June 2012, I shot the D200 exclusively. I still take it out from time to time. I find it still does Flesh Tones better than the later DSLRs(though the D850 was pretty close, and being lower resolution, is a bit less harsh when it comes to revealing any flaws in the Skin. I contacted Nikon trying to get a Picture Control Profile that would get my D800 and D810, to mimic the D200, but to no avail

Between Mar of 2003, till Jan 2006, I shot the D100, my first DSLR.

I was getting into photography and stubbornly shooting film about the time the D200 came out, and I remember reading Ken Rockwell's pages on it(yes I believed everything he said then, unfortunately) and read about how it was the most perfect camera ever created.

A few years ago, when I started building a DSLR "collection", the D200 was certainly high on my list. The first one I bought had been used to death, and I loved the handling but it proved itself unreliable. That's not the camera's fault-that's it just being used well past the rated lifetime(I bought a couple of D300s s from the same seller in the 300K and 400K range). My second one fortunately worked a lot better.

With that said, around the same time I bought a Fuji S5, which is essentially a D200 body with a Fuji sensor. The front end(metering, AF, etc) all work just like a D200, while the back end/menus are Fuji and unfortunately not as user-friendly as Nikon's. I still regularly use the S5, and love the color and especially skin tones I get from it. I never really clicked with the D200, although that's my fault and not its fault. It's a fantastic camera in general.

Like owner now of Nikon D810 & D850 I miss my first digital camera that was D200 was wonderful camera and skin colors incredible!

You can get one on ebay for less than $100 US

Hi Maoby,
Nice to see you here!
I always found your posts interesting.

Best regards,
Burts

Thanks a lot 👍🏻

I am working my way backwards. My main DSLR is a D500 but I recently got a D300s to burn the shutter on that in mechanical burst modes ( for a macro app ) rather than hammering the now hard to replace D500. ( I am probably repeating myself from posts on DPreview )

I rather like the D300s however and have taken to using it for the occassional snaps. Just for fun I got a D200 but haven't had time to use it much. The SOOC output is pleasing to me - has a softness that I like but that I guess it is the jpeg processing ( I am used to 10 mpx cameras in that I use a Nikon V1 a lot ).

I also read that it probably has a Sony CCD sensor not a Kodak one. So far not convinced I can see much of a difference between CCD and CMOS.

Both the D200 and D300s were very inexpensive ( after I had sent back one D200 with the "dead battery syndrome" ). Really extraordinary to be able to pick up perfectly competent and well built cameras for so little - if you can deal with the DR and other sensor limitations. Quite interesting on the D200 to use it at fixed iso 200 just like my film cameras.

richard

Well, inspired by this thread(and a recent revival by me to actually use a lot of these early DSLRs I spent a while collecting), I pulled my D200 out this afternoon. I should say I pulled one of them out-the other I recall having had a lot of use before coming to me and throwing regular shutter errors, but I'll try it.

In any case, I've found on my supposedly "good" one that the rear command dial is very touchy. It seems to work reliably if I push up while turning, but left to its own device will typically only register about one out of every 5 clicks, or sometimes will even register in the opposite direction as it was rotated.

I'm guessing the easy answer is to buy another one, but does anyone know if there's a common/easy to fix issue that causes this? I feel like it's not the first camera of this same general age I've seen with a touchy dial.

I have the same problem with my Nikon D200.
I prefer to use the front dial or P mode with this camera.

Don't have the issue on mine. Had it on a d700 once. My d200 was a very low shutter count in pristine hardly uses condition. It had about 70 clicks on it!