
Product Description

Stunning image quality, broad control and the
world's first digital SLR movie function
Fusing 12.3-megapixel image quality and a cinematic 24fps D-Movie
Mode, the Nikon D90 exceeds the demands of passionate photographers.
Newly designed Nikon DX-format CMOS image sensor with wide
ISO sensitivity range with low noise.
D90's 12.3 effective megapixels
provides outstanding resolution, delivering images with
extraordinarily defined detail and expanded enlargement
capacity. The extremely wide sensitivity range of ISO 200 to
3200 delivers incredibly low-noise characteristics throughout.
Furthermore, sensitivity can be increased to Hi 1 (ISO 6400
equivalent) and decreased to Lo 1 (ISO 100 equivalent) to expand
shooting versatility. The camera also employs the Image Sensor
Cleaning function that works to free image-degrading dust
particles from the sensor's optical low-pass filter.
EXPEED for smooth tones, rich colors and fine details
Nikon's comprehensive digital
image-processing EXPEED technology is optimized for the D90 to
realize the high-quality, high-speed image processing
capability. EXPEED also contributes to the outstanding
performance of other powerful features such as Live View and the
new Face Detection System.
D-Movie: the world's first D-SLR movie mode
In a world first for D-SLRs, the
D90 offers a movie function, allowing you to shoot 320 x 216
pixels, 640 x 424 pixels or HD720p (1,280 x 720 pixels) movies
at the professional smoothness of 24 frames per second in motion
JPEG format. The D90's sensor, which is much larger than the
sensor of a typical camcorder, ensures higher image quality and
exceptional low-noise, high ISO sensitivity performance, even
during movie shooting. Capturing creative movie clips or the
drama of life's moving moments is further enhanced by the wide
selection of incredibly sharp NIKKOR interchangeable lenses that
are available, from fisheye to wide-angle to super-telephoto.
And Micro NIKKOR lenses bring the magic of extreme close-up
imagery to movie making.
Scene Recognition System integrated with Face Detection
System
The D90 precisely reads the color
and brightness information of each scene from the 420-pixel RGB
sensor, and applies this to auto focus, auto exposure and auto
white balance. The D90 also recognizes human faces using the new
Face Detection System, data which is incorporated during
calculation, resulting in faces with newfound definition and
accuracy as well as enabling face priority AF in Live View mode
and immediate zoom into people's faces in playback zoom.
Easy-to-use Live View mode
One press of the Live View button activates the D90's Live View
mode, delivering a bright, crisp image to the 3-in., approx.
920k-dot color LCD and allowing comfortable shooting without
looking through the viewfinder. There are three contrast-detect
AF modes that let you focus on any point in the frame: Face
priority AF automatically detects up to five faces and focuses
on that calculated to be the closest. Wide area AF offers a
large AF area suitable for handheld shooting, and normal area AF
provides focus with pinpoint accuracy when using a tripod. And
when Nikon VR (Vibration Reduction) lenses are in use,
photographers will enjoy the benefit of a VR-smoothed image,
even in Live View mode.
Picture Control System: Customize the visual style of your
images
Nikon's Picture Control System
enables users to customize the look and mood of images. Six
original setting options are available Standard, Neutral,
Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait and Landscape for easy
customization of image preferences.
Active D-Lighting for smooth tone reproduction in
high-contrast lighting
The D90's Active D-Lighting
accurately restores details in the shadows and highlighted
areas, which are often lost in high-contrast lighting
situations, by localizing tone control while shooting. There are
four levels, including the new "Extra High." Active D-Lighting
can be used manually or set to Auto mode. It is also possible to
bracket your pictures, allowing the capture of one image with
Active D-Lighting and one without.
Versatile, practical 11-point AF system
Thanks to the Multi-CAM 1000
autofocus module, the D90's 11-point AF system offers fast and
precise autofocus coverage across the frame with the most
sensitive AF sensor operating from the center. In addition, the
D90 features versatile AF-area modes to handle most shooting
situations: Single-point AF is recommended for stationary
subjects, dynamic-area AF for moving subjects, auto-area AF for
spontaneous shooting and 3D-tracking (11 points) AF for when you
want to change the composition after focusing on your subject.
Bright pentaprism viewfinder featuring frame coverage of
approx. 96%
The D90 has a precise eye-level
pentaprism viewfinder with approx. 96% (centered) frame coverage
and an easy-to-view 19.5 mm eyepoint (at -1.0 m-1).
The built-in 16-frame superimposed grid display can be activated
to assist in the creation of better-balanced compositions.
Advanced Scene Modes for superior image quality
The D90 features Advanced Scene
Modes: Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports and Night Portrait.
These modes not only adjust exposure and image processing, but
also judge the optimum Active D-Lighting and Picture Control
settings to obtain the best results. The D90 also recognizes if
VR (Vibration Reduction) is on or off and minimizes noise even
in dimly lit scenes.
Extensive palette of in-camera Retouch Menus
The D90's designers incorporated
a wide variety of image editing functions, making it easy for
users to enhance images within the camera. The D90 introduces
several new retouch options: Distortion Control adjusts lens
aberration, Straighten corrects inclination of the image, while
Fisheye produces optical effects similar to a fisheye lens.
Engineered for precision and durability
Accurate exposures rely on
precise shutters and the D90's electronically timed shutter
mechanism was specifically engineered for long, accurate
service. To ensure this, D90 shutters, assembled in D90 bodies,
underwent exhaustive 100,000 shutter-release cycle testing.
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