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Nov 30, 2017
Bad quality
Does not hold a charge
Apr 05, 2008
My D80 experience – I own one.
2 of 2 found this helpful I am an experienced photographer and this is an amazing piece of equipment I love! I own a D80 and sometimes use a D40X at work. If you want a very nice point and shoot with the ability to change lenses buy the D40X. If you want a well-priced professional camera with the ability to change settings while looking through the viewfinder, then get the D80 (you can not do this with the D40X) I have not been disappointed with my D80 and would not spend the money on a D200 (Same Megapixles and same processor. If I had the money, I would go for the D300 -12 mp). The top mounted LCD screen is also a great addition to this camera. There are plenty of technical reviews so I will not go into that. My advice is to buy the D80 with the Nikon 18-200 lens and then buy a Nikon 50 mm 1.4 lens for portrait work. These are the only two lenses you will really need, anything else is just fluff. I love my 50mm and use it at least 50% of the time. I also purchased a battery grip, 4-2GB SD Ultra II Cards, a wireless remote, Nikon SB200 (great, small flash) and SB600 flashes (With the camera on commander mode, the SB 600 act as a remote Slave - great simple portable studio set-up), a tripod ball head (allows you to position the camera on any angle possible) and a camera/laptop backpack. My advice is to also buy a good, lightweight but very solid tripod. Otherwise the shutter will blur the image on very slow shutter speeds. If you do studio work, then you will also need a good set of studio strobes with modeling lights. Drawback - Raw image processing software is extra but I do not use this feature so this does not matter to me.
Aug 09, 2016
Item is as advertised
Good quality and good value.