If you’ve ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do. Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced — an inanimate object capable of animating its beholder. That feeling was rekindled recently when I picked up Nikon’s latest digital SLR, the D50.
New Nikon Digital SLR Has the Right Stuff
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 18, 2005 05:00 AMIf you’ve ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do. Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced — an inanimate object capable of animating its beholder. That feeling was rekindled recently when I picked up Nikon’s latest digital SLR, the D50.