Evolution And Development Of Nikon In Digital Photography

Nikon digital photography basically uses digital technology for the process of making images of the photographed objects. Unlike film prints, digital photographs can display, print, manipulate, and even transmit images using computer. almost all digital cameras operate as a self operating units, especially those at the lower end, which has in built zoom lens, flashes etc. the higher end digital cameras have separate camera back, which are attached to SLR cameras, like the Nikon SLR camera.

Nikon cameras

You must have known about Nikon cameras, which are one of the most reputed company in camera manufacture since the 1960s.their 35mm Sarthe Nikon F was famous from its day of introduction and remained top in list of favourite cameras for almost two decades after that. The attractive feature of Nikon is the Nikko 35mm and the digital lenses. Though there were talks about receding the production of 35mm SLR's, they still are in production, especially the ones that are manually operated. the range of camera in Nikons production vary widely, like the Nikon35mm, Nikon, coolpix,digital cameras, Film scanners, lenses, Digital SLR's.and to tell the many accessories that go with these cameras, would well take another article.

Speaking of variety, you have to know the two generation cameras that Nikon cameras have come across, namely the generation -1 and generation -2 cameras.

Generation -1

Cameras start with the SLR D1 in 1999, now we have a range till D 40. The general features of these cameras are:

1. Primitive picture with white balance adjustments.

2. Image menu is optimized with only two adjustments like + and - for high and low of that feature.

3. Lesser dynamism in range and more than two modes that were usually not used by many.

Examples - D1, D2, D40, D40x, D50, D70etc

Generation -2 Cameras

The DSLR's starts with D3 to D300. Some of their salient features are

1. They give better image because of Adaptive Dynamic Range (ADR).

2. Ad gives trueness to the picture and does not add all those unwanted colours, contrast to brightness.

3. Controls the light passage on its own.

4. The picture control menus are set with direct control to a magnitude of +/-3.

5. They have WB adjustments to a tune of 6 units making it easy to adjust colour and lighting,

6. Off late Nikon has included colour adjustment and totally less manual corrections would be required.

price range

I know you did have an idea of what you would get at what price from the above list. some of the customers that bought Nikon digital cameras have great satisfaction both with respect to price and product that they have been praising them from day one. a person who recently bought the d700 says his world has changed since he bought it.

Some accessories that you get when you buy Nikon digital cameras are:

Nikon 50mm Conventional Lens

58mm 2X Telephoto Lens

2 X 16GB Secure Digital (SD) Memory Card

650-1300mm Long Range Lens etc