What Nikon do you shoot with?

[neris]

I am using Nikon D3100, love it very much.

[wotcars]

Mostly shot with A D5000 for the last 2 years, did think of upgrading to a d7000 when it came out and im glad i didnt now i see the d800 (need to sweet talk the wife now dam that will cost me ) if works good this year i might treat myself

[D700guy]

D700. I was going to go with D300 but I decided to wait until I could get the D700 for being the same aspect ratio as a film camera, and it's better light pulling ability.

[WesG]

Originally Posted by imagek

D200, but I think its dying would really love a D700 but not sure I can go that long without a camera so I'm hoping Santa may bring me a D7000, unless.............amk1977....

Don't give up too quickly on the D200, I had three bodies, each with over 300,000 actuations and one is coming up on 500,000. There is NO standard life on this camera, but Nikon claims a MTBF (mean time between failures) for this camera at 100,000. That is a shutter failure number, btw. When it happens, if it happens, just send it to a competent repair shop and after repair, you are back at zero. My prior camera, the D70, I took to over 1 million actuations before I switched over to the D200 and I had no failure there either.

The secret is to have the camera cleaned and serviced regularly. I do that every 100,000. Now, understand that I am a motorsports editor and at a weekend race, I can often shoot 2,000 shots. Take 25 races a year and throw in my nature photography and travel photography and I have each body serviced once a year. I should also point out that several times a year Nikon sends reps to our races and they bring with them many of the really expensive lens for us to try out.... FREE. During these visits, they routinely offer to clean and upgrade the camera firmware.

I just gave one of the camera bodies to a student at the local high school who won a photo contest sponsored by one of my camera clubs. He had a 3 mp Kodak camera that had to be 15-20 years old and I thought he would make good use of the camera. I lent my other two D200s to a friend who is shortly off to Africa on a vacation and needed backup and spare equipment. I think, however, he is about to invest in a couple of V1s and when that happens I will get the D200s back. If you want one of them, I will happily send one over to you (I will expect you to reimburse me for the shipping, however). Now that I am fully converted to the V1, and have sold off all of my regular lenses (except for the 70-200, which I will be keeping), the bodies are pretty much dust collectors and giving them to someone who will use and enjoy them will make me very happy. I would truly hate just trashing them.

[NeilSmaf]

I shoot with the D50, had it since it became discontinued, its served me very well but trying to save for a D300s. I know that its about to become discontinued but if it comes down in price so that I can afford it then I'll be even happier.

However, I will also wait till the price for the D400 is announced before deciding

[atcosteve]

D300 is my main body (absolutely love it!) and D3100 as secondary/backup

[rkraw3]

D300 great cam...

[WES B]

As previously reported as BarryH1, whose identity I could not get this place to recognise, so I re registered. I still use D300, D700 & D3s. Also recently got an N1 V1 with adaptor to use some of my 35mm lenses with. My SLRS are everything and more I could hope for. The V1 regrettably I regard as a work in progress, even though Nikon were late into the CSC medium.

[Kjell]

D300 and D80.

[Derek300Savage]

I use a D90 as my back up which is a superb camera but my baby is my D300s I absolutley love it