I have a confession to make.

I couldn’t wait for the weekend…so…. I got home from work, changed, got back into the car and drove to Argos to get my brand new Nikon D90!

Obviously, I fell instantly in love with it. The size and weight is perfect and the 3″ LCD screen a big bonus. I couldn’t contain my excitement as I charged the battery for a couple of hours when I got back while I tried to have some dinner. Eventually, with a fully charged D90 and my manual, I began exploring my new best friend.

As I was taking some test shots in our slightly dark living room, I had no idea that the clear and extremely sharp snaps were on at an ISO of 2000! I have to admit that the out-of-the-box settings weren’t ideal for me. I had to change a lot of the exposure compensation and white balance etc to get the D90 to do what I wanted it to do. However, once I sorted that out, it was a dream to work with.

Anyway, back to the ISO issue (which is a big selling feature of this camera…)…it does what it says on the tin. With the same composure, I only started to notice the noise at ISO 3200. I can’t imagine how I had put up with unacceptable noisy pictures from my D40 on a mere ISO 1600.

On a personal level, the big bonus for me was being able to snap away and focus automatically on my favourite 50mm f1.8 lens. The beauty of the lens coupled with the ISO sensitivity of the D90 is a great combination for low light photography.

However, swapping from a 6MP SLR to a 12MP SLR and shooting in RAW, I suddenly realized how quickly my 4GB SD card got filled up!

Anyway, I’m sure there are a lot more features I’ve yet to discover on this briliant piece of kit. It sure has a lot more menu options I’ve never seen before on my D40. It’s gonna take me some time but oh…is it gonna be worth it…