Need advice on digital slr camera

[campbellcj]

Sorry to revive a little bit older thread, but if anyone has a Nikon D200 and has real-world lens advice, I'd appreciate it. I just bit the (big) bullet and ordered the D200. Yep I have read the dpreview and kenrockwell stuff -- which is fantastic -- but additional real-world data points never hurt when looking at this level of expenditure and time commitment!

[unclebilly]

I shoot mostly medium format film (I have a Hasselblad and a few rollei TLR cameras) but do shoot digital as well. We have the canon Rebel DSLR camera at work and I find it to be a plasticy piece of crap. It takes nice photos but is cumbersome to use.

I have several friends who shoot D70's and love them. I've shot a few of them and they are a nice camera.

If you want a truely excellent camera and can afford to add a 0 to your budget, you can get a nice Hasselblad 501cm and a digital back... the guy at the local camera shop offered to trade me a Digital back for my Hassey in exchange for my Porsche... naturally, I declined.

[911 Rod]

How about a good quality point and shoot digital camera?

[masraum]

I think the name is the Sony DSC-H1 or something like that. Nice advanced point and shoot.

[911 Rod]

I'm sort of limited in that I want to buy it with my Airmiles.
There is a Sony 8.1MP Cyber-shot.

[911 Rod]

I've narrowed it down to the Nikon Coolpix P3 and the Sony DSC-W100.
Any opinions?
I'm leaning toward the Nikon.

[campbellcj]

I'm not familiar with either of those models, but FWIW I was very pleased with my old (2000?) Nikon, enough that I went back to them when I decided to go to an SLR (which I expect to arrive tomorrow...woohoo).

[dean]

I just got a Nikon D70s. It is a ton of camera for me. But the thing that I really didn't like about point and shoot cameras was the slow focus and shutter speed. Totally unexceptable for action shots. So I am slowly learning my D70 and liking it.

[911 Rod]

I already have a Nikon SLR for when I want to take quality shots.
I find I don't take it places because of its size.
The point and shoot is for the "drinking sports".

[charleskieffner]

funny how no one mentioned......................WATERPROOF! now you can have some FUN! rain or shine. despite diving for over 30 years the advantage of a waterproof camera are 10-fold say going to olympic peninsula/alaska/hawaii or anywhere theres moisture. WOULD NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT ANY CAMERA THAT ISNT WATERPROOF! i have a blast with my NIK IV w/o strobe or my NIK V w/sb-105 strobe on land as well as underwater or rainy climates. same with my digital u/w camera. if i want lots of pics i take digital. if i want 36 perfect pics i'll take 35mm's. doesnt matter underwater/sunny/rainy/muddy/dusty. learned my lesson long ago. its worth the extra bucks!