The EN-E元e is backward-compatible with the E元a version, in that it can be used to power older cameras like the D70, but the older EN-E元a battery can't be used to power the D80. Like the D200, the D80 uses Nikon's new EN-E元e lithium-ion battery pack or an optional AC adapter for power. Here again, the D200 is a good bit faster (4,386 KB/sec), but the D80 is fast enough that most users will feel no need for a separate card reader.
#NIKON D80 SHUTTER COUNT WINDOWS#
(A 2.4 GHz Pentium IV with a high-speed USB 2.0 port.) You'll likely get even slightly faster transfer rates with RAW images, as Windows is quicker when handling fewer, larger files than it is with more, smaller ones. We clocked our test unit at 2,855 KBytes/second when downloading a collection of JPEG images to our Sony VAIO desktop computer. The D80 is also quite fast when it comes to offloading images onto a computer. Photojournalists, fashion photographers, and sports shooters will likely gravitate to the D200 for this reason, but most amateurs are likely to find the D80's speed more than adequate for their purposes. The combination of shooting speed and buffer capacity is one of the key differentiators between the D80 and its big brother the D200: As we've just seen, the D80 nominally manages 6 frames at 3 frames/second, while the D200 can shoot a minimum of 21 RAW or 24 large/fine JPEGs at 5 frames/second. "Average" subjects (if there is such a thing) will probably give you buffer lengths of 20 or more frames, certainly an impressive performance for a consumer DSLR.
#NIKON D80 SHUTTER COUNT ISO#
Subjects with a lot of fine detail and high ISO settings produce images that don't compress as well, and so fill up the buffer memory faster. Some reviewers have claimed that the D80 has "unlimited" buffer capacity with fast enough memory cards, but we found that to be true only if you're shooting subjects with less than average amounts of detail in them, and then really only at lower ISO settings. Scenes with a great amount of fine detail captured at the highest JPEG quality will result in a 6-frame buffer depth, while scenes with less detail or captured at lower JPEG quality settings will result in buffer depths of 10, 20 or more frames. (That is, you only get 6 frames, whether you're shooting a blank wall or a subject with loads of fine detail.) As just noted above, JPEG buffer depth will depend quite strongly on scene content and the amount of JPEG compression you've selected. Shooting to RAW or RAW+JPEG formats, the D80 can capture 6 frames before having to slow down for the memory card, and scene content doesn't matter very much.
This isn't unusual, as many cameras show different buffer depths for RAW vs JPEG shooting, and subjects with little detail compress much better than those with a lot of detail, so relatively plain images will translate into greater buffer capacity.
The Nikon D80's buffer capacity can be highly variable, depending on the mode you're shooting in, and the subject content. (NOTE that Long Exposure NR is NOT reset by the reset-all button combination! - You'll want to make sure that this option is disabled if you need maximum shooting speed.) For best performance then, it's important to turn off long-exposure NR unless you're actually shooting at very slow shutter speeds. It normally shoots at 3 frames/second, but we found that this dropped to just under two frames/second (0.54 second between shots, or 1.86 frames/second, to be precise) when long-exposure noise reduction was enabled, even when using short shutter speeds. The Nikon D80 has only one continuous mode, vs the two modes of the D200. Shutter response when prefocused is also slower though, the 83 msec response of the D80 being only average for a DSLR.Ĭontinuous Mode Speed and Buffer Capacity
It's full-autofocus shutter lag is actually just a hair faster than that of the D200, but its shot to shot cycle times are longer, and continuous-mode speed is lower, with much lower buffer capacities as well. The Nikon D80 is a very responsive camera, albeit not quite up to the level of performance of its big brother, the D200. Slow cards may also limit length of bursts in continuous mode.
Slower cards will produce correspondingly slower clearing times. *Note: Buffer clearing times measured with a SanDisk Extreme III SD memory card.