<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by k9tim:
Heh! Another Nikonians member. Been there for quite some time.
I usually go to dpreview for the latest scoop on announcements or rumors. Than after I wade through all the crap posts, I go back to Nikonians and get the slimmed down versions of the info.
For the original poster, if you can swing it and want to go the SLR route, look hard at the D200. I don't think you will find another SLR that is built as well as it is in the price range. Magnesium body, weather seals, etc... It is like a small version of my D2H. I have dropped the D2H from a height of about 4 feet with a big 70-200 2.8 lens on it into the bottom of a fishing boat in Alaska and it didnt even scratch it.
I have every confidence the D200 would be the same.
That and if there is no bear spray around, you could use it for some serious self defense
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I was one of the original beta testers for Nikonians; JRP and Bo are personal friends. I don't spend much time there recently since I don't believe in the way they are progressing, but JRP and Bo are the owners, so it is their decisions.
Most of the photos from the Utah web pages I posted are from a Nikonian photo trip back in 2002. Since then, I have traveled in that area with another Nikonian who does not visit the site that much anymore.
Still a great site for info on Nikon cameras, but their censor policy, and their all-inclusive policy on photo trips drove me away.
Then again, it is due to a few of us in Utah in 2002 that they went to the all-inclusive trip for future photos trips.
Four of us seem to piss off Bo due to our going on our own without asking others if they wanted to go.