>>3020375Had it since a couple months after it came out.
It's a great camera. Great image quality, has all the necessary features like more buttons and dials for less menu diving. What sold me on it particularly were a couple of things. First, it has a true ISO of 64, not a 'lo 1' setting but it truly has a base of 64. Not the hugest difference but if you're on a tripod and want to squeeze out a bit of extra DR it's great.
Next, it has a highlight-weighted metering mode. It'll meter for the brightest thing in the frame and expose for that. If you use it you may need to set EV comp to +.3 or even +.7 but since shadow recovery on this camera is so good that's not such a big deal. You'll love not blowing highlights on accident ever again.
ISO performance is not class leading, but certainly leagues above your D200.
Regarding file size, I usually get about 70-75 MB per file if I use lossless 14 bit RAWs. They aren't a pain to edit if your computer is fast enough. I don't know what the minimum threshold would be but my last PC was a laptop with an i7 and 8 GB DDR3; current rig has an i7 and 32 GB DDR4 memory. Of course, nobody's saying you have to shoot the largest file size, either, but you'll get the most out of your files that way of course.
Here's a sample if it means anything.
