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D100-The best bet
I own the D100 and would highly recommend it to anyone serious about gettting the best reference they can for painting. I used to use the 990 Coolpix and was quite happy with it except for one large problem that I learned to tolerate, the lag time from the time you hit the shutter button to the actual time it took the shot. And that means you also are not going to get any continuious shots of say, for example, of a model walking.
I shoot in the studio and in the field and I found I was missing shots that normally would have been captured with my film cameras with motor drives and all. I really missed that. Now, I have everything I use to have with my Nikon F100 and more. I read somewhere on the this forum that film cameras have more definition. That's not true anymore. Also, the color is far superior to any film I have ever taken.
$2000 may sound like a lot of money for a camera but it will save you more money than you can ever imagine. It's worth taking out a loan for one. I use to spend around $8000 a year on film and processing alone. Now I shoot to my heart's content and download my cards and that's it. I get 100 sheets of Epson photo paper for $20 at Costco. That's quite a deal.
Last week I had a older couple in the studio dancing the waltz for a painting I am going to do. With my D100 I could take consecutive shots as fast I could push the shutter button and in 3 hours shoot 2600 high resolution shots. From those I was able to sort thru them and find the "magic shot". I could have never done that with the 990.
Being able to have the best lenses on my digital camera is also a plus that is not realized until you experience it too. All in all, take my word for it, there is not one negative I can complain about with this camera.
And, no, I don't own stock in Nikon.
Morgan
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