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New Nikon Digital SLRs for 2009

August 1, 2009

Nikon has done it again, announcing new digital cameras with innovative features for 2009. Both Nikon digital SLRs and compact Coolpix cameras have new models coming out, and as usual, Nikon is pushing the envelope with new features while maintaining the highest quality.

Three new Nikon DSLRs have been announced recently, the Nikon D3000, the Nikon D300s and the Nikon D5000. All three cameras offer advanced features at very affordable price points, and the Nikon D300s and D5000 offer some features never before seen in Nikon DSLRs.

The strongest attribute of the Nikon D3000 is straight out value. Every serious photographer should have at least one Nikon DSLR, and for the price of a high-quality compact camera anyone can own the 10.2 megapixel Nikon D3000. It includes a bright, 3-inch, hi-resolution LCD screen with 170-degree viewing angle; high ISO 1600 for shooting in low-light conditions; 11-point autofocus; continuous shooting at up to 3 frames per second; split-second shutter response time and more.

The Nikon D5000 is a very reasonably-priced digital SLR with extremely high picture quality (12.3 mega-pixels) and many features that you used to find only in cameras costing at least twice as much. Live View allows you to compose your photo in the brightly-lit LCD monitor, and the DSLR offers four auto-focus modes (including Face-priority AF) and 11 super-fast autofocus points. Built-in ultrasonic image sensor cleaning prevents dust or other particles from appearing on your shots.

The Nikon D300s has the highest cost of the three new Nikon DSLRs, but for the premium price it offers super-fast continuous shooting up to 8 frames per second, a super high-res, 920,000-pixel LCD screen, and an amazing 51-point autofocus system which includes an on-camera scene recognition system.

Both the D300s and D5000 offer my favorite new feature for 2009 in digital SLRs: Hi-def video capture. The wide variety of Nikkor lenses available give any photographer the ability to capture almost any image imaginable. And now, a creative photographer can become a movie director, setting up and taking remarkable video that are way beyond the capabilities of anything that compact cameras can record. The Nikons can capture video at 24 fps, 720P resolution, with stereo sound input.

Every new Nikon camera and many other brands of digital cameras can be ordered now from RitzCamera.com; you can pre-order the Nikon D300s and Nikon D3000, which will be shipping out very soon.

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Order the Nikon D90 Now – Be Taking Videos in September

August 28, 2008

I’m excited! The Nikon D90 has just been released, and this camera is great! I had high expectations, and Nikon has exceeded them all with this new DSLR. If you want to get this camera right away, order the Nikon D90 from Ritz Camera and you’ll be sure to get it ahead of anywhere else.

Anyone who knows me knows that I love digital SLR cameras, especially my Nikon cameras. My favorite is my Nikon D80. But one thing that has always bugged me is that there are features you can get in a pocket-sized compact camera (or even the camera built into your cell phone) that you couldn’t get in a DSLR costing more than $1000. Features like auto-face recognition and video recording were — in my opinion, anyway — conspicuously absent.

Now, a little over two years since the initial release of the Nikon D80, Nikon has come out with a camera that literally has everything in it I could imagine: the Nikon D90. 12.3 megapixels, DX-format CMOS sensor, auto-focus AND auto-face recognition, low-light capabilities (up to ISO 3200), super-fast 4.5 shots per second for those days at the BMX track… the features go on and on.

This camera has almost all of the latest technology of the flagship Nikon D300, but it’s less than half the price!

But wait… there’s more! A feature has been added that surprised even me. The Nikon D90 can record videos, with or without sound (your choice), in 720p resolution!

Can you imagine the possibilities?!?

Think of all the great photos that you’ve seen. All the Ansel Adams-esk landscapes… The gorgeous portraits, candid shots and wedding photos… The action sports shots… The abstract images created by changing the color settings or by using a wide-angle lens, a fish-eye lens or other unique optics.

Now imagine… all of these “special effects” can be available in a hand-held video camcorder; a camcorder called the Nikon D90.

I will be writing much more about this camera soon, going into its new, unique features in much more detail. For now, I recommend that you buy a Nikon D90 now. This will be a purchase you can cherish for a long, long time.

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