DSLR ? Nikon D50

[luvmyboat]

Anybody using a Nikon D50 Digital SLR? The reviews that I have read place it better that the Canon Rebel XT 8.1 Megapixal. Looking for: good flash pictures, quick cycling / fast picture taking. The reviews on this 6.0 are very good. Real life experiences? Mike

[Tom Brown]

I would be way more concerned about the lens system than unbelievably minute differences in camera bodies.
Pick the lens system you want and then go with the body that best suits your needs.

[Jbb]

go with the body that best suits your needs.
Where is that picture......... :p

[Dribble]

Go with the D-70 instead. A few more bucks and a superior camera. They also just came out with a D-200 that looks pretty cool.

[luvmyboat]

I read into this review that the metering was better on the D50 vs. D70. Am I missing something? "
Although quite similar in use and appearance there are some noteworthy differences between the D50 and D70, we have detailed all of the feature / specification differences in the table below. To summarize the most important; the D50 has improved auto focus especially in the area of motion tracking, it has a new auto AF mode (which automatically switches between single and continuous AF depending on the subject), it has a lower resolution metering sensor but that sensor is a newer generation than the one used in the D70 (and D70s) - spot metering circle is also larger, the maximum shutter speed is 1/4000 sec, continuous shooting is 2.5 fps, it has a better viewfinder eyecup, the LCD monitor has increased to 2.0" in size, the D50 takes SD cards (not CF), it's slightly smaller and lighter than the D70 and several features have been removed or simplified to make the camera easier to use.
The only key difference between the D50 and D70 from an image pipeline point of view is that the image processing algorithm has now been tweaked to improve rendition of highlight detail (to clip less and have a softer roll-off to the highlight). It's also worth noting that the D50's default color space mode is IIIa which is still sRGB but is described as being optimized for nature and landscape photographs, you can see the difference in the sample on this page of our D70 review