Nikon reveals prosumer digital SLR

21st February - 2002
By Ian Burley

For full details on the new Nikon D100, click here for the Nikon press release.

It’s PMA show time starting this weekend and already the new product releases are popping out of the woodwork. A significant announcement this morning comes from Nikon, with the news of an ‘affordable’ digital SLR, the D100.

Nikon has reigned supreme in the professional digital SLR sector since it introduced the Nikon D1 some three years ago. However, Nikon has left the more affordable, so-called ‘prosumer’, digital SLR market to the likes of Canon, Olympus and Fujifilm. But that all changes today with the launch of the Nikon D100.

The D100 is based on one of their consumer film SLR body (F100) and is expected to compete directly with Canon’s D30 (or the rumoured D60 replacement) and Fujifilm’s outgoing FinePix S1-Pro and the incoming S2-Pro. No price is yet available, but we’d expect (hope?) a body only to be introduced in the UK with a target price of between £2000 and £2500.

A new 6 megapixel CCD sensor lies at the heart of the D100, which makes it higher in resolution than the pro D1x. The camera looks as compact as the Canon D30 and has the option of a combo clip-on base-plate battery pack and portrait grip. Unlike the D1 range, the D100 has a built in pop-up flash (must be an amateur cam! -Ed).

For full details on the new Nikon D100, click here for the Nikon press release.
 

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