Nikon D50 Scores Highest Rating At PC Magazine

Nikon D50 Scores Highest Rating At PC Magazine: Nikon’s D50 is the new Editors’ Choice for D-SLR digital cameras at PC Magazine.

The D50’s toughest competitor is the former PC Magazine Editors’ Choice, the 8MP Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.

The reviewer really liked the the D50’s menu system, in fact, he called it, superior. He liked it because it seemed far more user friendly than the Canon menus. The camera scored very well on our resolution test, with 1,550 lines. (By comparison, the Rebel XT scored 1,750, which you’d expect because of the higher megapixels. The D70s-also a 6MP camera-came in slightly higher than the D50, at 1,600.) The results from our performance tests were outstanding, with a boot-up time of 1.06 seconds and a blazing 0.7 seconds shot-to-shot recycle time. As we’ve found with all the D-SLRs we’ve tested, there was no shutter lag on the D50, nor did we find any pincushion distortion. We did see a moderate amount of barrel distortion at the high end of the zoom range, but no more than is expected.

For the money, you can’t do better than the Nikon D50.

Five out of five stars at PC Magazine.

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