How well does the Nikon D1, the company's first DSLR that was launched in 1999, hold up in 2022? Cameralabs digs into it, and you might be surprised.
, the series where he revisits classic cameras from decades past. This time he’s dusting off the 23-year-old Nikon D1, the company’s first DSLR.
Of note, Laing says that a 2008 interview revealed that the D1 sensor was actually 10.8-megapixels, but it was grouped into fours for greater sensitivity and dynamic range which resulted in the much smaller finished photo size. “Here you can see the five AF areas, along with information running below, including the metering, shutter, aperture exposure mode, and remaining buffer. The mechanical shutter speed ran between 30 seconds and an impressively fast 16,000th of a second, typically double that of most mechanical shutters on top-end bodies today.”
One area that was different about the D1 is its color space. Instead of the common sRGB that is used today, the D1 used the NTSC color profile and could record JPEGs and TIFFS in 12-bit RAW.
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