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Interesting to have the Nikon story from inside

You still selling D200's Birddog?

Michael wrote:You still selling D200's Birddog?

Yes, but no stock

I'll be looking for one V shortly

The interesting bit of the article is actually on page 1 (Birdy's link is to page 2) where they admit that the old D1 sensor was actually 10.8mp not 2.7mp. Due to technological limitations at the time they had to incorporate 4 pixels per photosite to acheive acceptable sensitivity and noise.

Assumably the D1x with 5.4mp (approximately) had 2 pixels per photosite which would also explain the curious 10mp mode one can acheive with the D1x in Nikon Capture??

Considering the D1 was announced in June 1999, this is really quite amazing. If DAC technology was on par with with sensor technology back then the D1 would have been an absolute technological marvel (even at its RRP of $US5,500).

johndec wrote:The interesting bit of the article is actually on page 1 (Birdy's link is to page 2) where they admit that the old D1 sensor was actually 10.8mp not 2.7mp. Due to technological limitations at the time they had to incorporate 4 pixels per photosite to acheive acceptable sensitivity and noise.

Assumably the D1x with 5.4mp (approximately) had 2 pixels per photosite which would also explain the curious 10mp mode one can acheive with the D1x in Nikon Capture??

Considering the D1 was announced in June 1999, this is really quite amazing. If DAC technology was on par with with sensor technology back then the D1 would have been an absolute technological marvel (even at its RRP of $US5,500).

John,
Yes, it's.

I found it interesting when they talked about skin tones and colour preference per area of geography.

nito wrote:I found it interesting when they talked about skin tones and colour preference per area of geography.

Yes, I found that to be interesting too.

Especially about the different colours of the sky.

I can almost always spot a picture posted in Vancouver when looking at photos of Flickr. I'm not sure if it's because I recgnize the area, or what, but I feel like I can even tell the difference between a sunset in Seattle and from one in Vancouver.

Interestingly the ocean is the same. Different colours depending where you are. (Also smell, texture and saltiness can contribute)

So how does a 10.8Mp image from the D1x compare to the 10Mp image from the D200?

Grev wrote:So how does a 10.8Mp image from the D1x compare to the 10Mp image from the D200?

Not as good because technology advances more and more. For the time a 10.8Mp D1x was a marvel.