The Nikon D100 is a discontinued 6-megapixel

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made by

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and designed as a consumer alternative to the professional D1 series cameras. It was the precursor of both the more advanced D70 and D200 cameras with the former continuing the consumer offerings and the latter beginning an advanced consumer and professional lineup. The D70 kept the controls which the D100 inherited from the F80 film camera, which has evolved into the current D7500 and D750 offerings, in cropped frame and full frame respectively. The D200 adopted the controls of the D1 series.

History and Design

It was introduced on February 21, 2002 at the

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Annual Convention and Trade Show as a direct competitor to the

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. With a price of US$1,999 for the body only in the United States, it was the second 6-megapixel DSLR to break the $2000 barrier, after the EOS D60. Although the name D100 suggested that it was a digital version of the

Nikon F100 The Nikon F100 is a 35 mm Photographic film, film-based single-lens reflex camera body introduced in 1999. It is often thought of as a scaled-down version of the Nikon F5, and as a precursor to the Nikon F6. The F100 was discontinued, along wi ...

, the camera design more closely resembles the

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(also known as Nikon N80 in the United States), which is a much more consumer-oriented camera than the professional F100. The price of the camera dropped over time to $1699 in May 2003, and $1499 in December 2003. In the Spring of 2004 Nikon released the D70, which offered superior features to the D100 at a lower price of $999. However, Nikon continued to produce the D100 until 2005 when a more advanced and professional-oriented successor, the

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, was released.

Features

* 6.0 effective megapixels rendering 3,008 x 2,000-pixel imagesNikon USA: D100 Specifications
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(Nikon NEF — compressed or uncompressed),

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* 3D Matrix Metering — 10 sensor matrix meter * Custom / Preset, Fixed or Auto White Balance options * Built-in Speedlight with D-TTL flash control — 18 GN

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* Three color modes (sRGB I, Adobe RGB, and sRGB III, (wider gamut of greens and blues) * Five-Area Autofocus with CAM-900 chip * Top shutter speed of 1/4,000s and flash sync speed up to 1/180s. * Has a self-timer, allowing times of 2, 5, 10 and 20s * USB 1.1 interface * Compatible with CompactFlash cards Type I and Type II, including IBM (and Hitachi's) MicroDrive hard drives up to 4 GB. Firmware v2.0 is required for body to recognize cards/drives larger than 2 GB, and cards/drives must be initially formatted as FAT32 in a computer. (Early v1.x firmware supported FAT16 only, so without the firmware upgrade the D100 will only be able to use or "see" 2 GB of available memory on larger cards.) * Optional Multi Function Battery Pack MB-D100 accepts six 1.5 V LR6 (AA-size alkaline) batteries or one or two Li-Ion EN-EL3 batteries for extended shooting capability. Features voice memo recording/playback function, vertical shutter release button, Command and Sub Command Dials, AF start button and a 10-pin remote terminal.

References

External links

Nikon D100 Product Page - Nikon Global Web site

DPReview reviews the D100
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