D80 - First impressions

[karohemd]

As I said earlier, it feels nice and solid, despite being plastic. The buttons are all in the right places, although some have moved around a bit from the D70 but that's not much of a problem. The autofocus seems nice and fast, although I had problems focussing through some leaves even with single area selected. I haven't cross-tested this with the D70, though.
The shutter/mirror mechanism feels and sounds more solid than that of the D70.

The Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 is really nice, too and seems very sharp across the range.

Stupid SD card reader doesn't work on my work machine (W2K says Insert Disk into drive x) and the reference machine with XP says the drive isn't formatted, so I can't show you any photos. :o( They look rather nice on the big LCD, though.

Comments

[mazzarc.livejournal.com]

Rather than SD card direct transfer, does it have a cable you can use to plug into your USB port?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does but I don't have it with me as the USB key was less bulky.

I'll just be miffed if it doesn't work on my desktop and especially the laptop, either. It's recognised as a USB Mass Storage Device and external drive but W2K says "insert a disk into drive" and WinXP claims it's not formatted. :o/

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

You haven't got the camera set to record to card in a Mac format or something have you? I seem to remember someone having a similar problem because of something like that with a different camera once...

Just a thought...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I formatted the card in the camera as advised and there wasn't an option for different OSs. Good thinking, though.
Our work machines aren't exactly brilliant, though so I'll see when I get home.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Please can you do me a favour? Take a photo of a brick wall from about 1m at 18mm, straight on? I'd be interested to see the extent of the barrel distortion on yours - there's some on mine (inevitable I guess) but it would be good to compare.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll get round to it on Saturday.
I took one of a street sign earlier but that wasn't full on.

What size SD card?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Have you used that SD card in that card reader before?

I have a couple of card readers around that, when you read the small print, are limited in the size of card they can actually handle.

I'm using a Dane-Elec USB 2.0 card reader here (I'd tell you the model but it's the in the middle of transferring 497 pictures from an xD card that I bought and used this weekend! OK done, it's the "Combo 9 in 4" reader) and it works fine on my work Win2K machine with SD, xD and MS Duo Pro (*without the adapter!*) and I've used it on my home machine with CF as well (I haven't tried SM in it since I've not used SM for years)

Because otherwise that sounds really weird as I have had no problems using my card reader with W2K and SD (1.0Gb)

Re: What size SD card?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It's a 2GB card and it better work because it was sold as "recommended accessory" for that card so if it doesn't, SVP are going to get a nasty email.