{"id":4972,"date":"2013-05-23T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2017-04-29T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T07:47:20","slug":"the-d-tundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/cameras\/2013\/05\/23\/the-d-tundred\/","title":{"rendered":"The D-Tundred"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was originally created in May 2013, but was updated April 29, 2017 to reflect some changed in my photographic landscape.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This front view of the Nikon D200 with the 50mm f\/1.8 Nikkor mounted shows how the camera stands tall on its MB-D200 battery grip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have a friend who always called the Nikon D100 the “dee hundred.” By extension, the Nikon D200 must be the “dee tundred,” or something like that.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the upgrade culture and eBay, I now have two D200s in my possession, which I got mostly for magazine work. Both are equipped with the MB-D200 multi-power battery grip, both are in excellent condition, and as my readers have come to expect, I paid less than a sixth of their original retail price for them.<\/p>\n

The D200 has strengths and weaknesses, but as with other older digital cameras, in the right hands they are excellent tools. So here is the good, the bad, and the ugly about the D200.<\/p>\n

The good…<\/p>\n