Review - Nikon Latest D80 Digital SLR

The Nikon D80 Digital SLR is the latest offering from Nikon featuring a specification that is quite close the professional D200 but at a much affordable price of US$999 (body only) or US$1299 (with 18-135mm lens). A very fine competitor to Sony's A100, it will be available in September.

It has a new 10.2 megapixel DX format CCD, Nikon F lens mount, 3D Color Matrix Metering II, 11 area autofocus, 0.18 second bootup, 80ms shot response, sporting SD card slots that support the new SDHC cards and is a very easy to use SLR with well-placed dials for your aperture and shutter adjustments, amongst more good stuff!

Nikon is releasing a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (yea, that's a good name to brag about to someone) for the D80, with a 4.3x zoom and Vibration Reduction II OIS. The lens is going to be available worldwide in October. Price? Let's just say it's really, really expensive. If you have to have it, you do not need to ask me for the price.

Check out the world exclusive review by hardwarezone, receiving a very exciting 4.5/5 stars.

Link to the full technical specifications

More Reviews here:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D80/D80A.HTM
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nikon_D80/4505-6501_7-32004258-2.html?tag=nav
http://www.ephotozine.com/equipment/tests/testdetail.cfm?test_id=471
http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/d80/