Nikon D200: First Impressions

I just upgraded from a Nikon D70 to a Nikon D200 camera: WOW what a difference. I have been too busy taking pictures to write about pictures but here are the things that leaped out at me first:

• Available light image quality is vastly improved. I had been jealous of my son’s D50′s quality and the D200 easily surpasses even that.
• Incredible color accuracy. I shot a swim meet and, expecting performance similar to the D70 and D50, I set the camera accordingly. I overcompensated and should have simply trusted the camera to do it right.
• Amazingly fast shutter; no lag time. I had thought that the D70 and D50 were fast but, when shooting swimmers, I find that I am shooting too early and need to retrain myself. What I had thought was slowness on my part in pushing the shutter button on the D70 was, in fact, shutter lag in the camera.

I also upgraded to the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S VR zoom lens but that is the subject of another rave for another day.