from page 136 of the December 2008 issue of Wired, by Jackson Lynch.
The D90 was introduced in the Autumn of 2008. It is a 12.3 megapixel digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera.
It has an eleven-point autofocus system that can give priority focus up to five faces at once.
It is the first DSLR that can shoot high-definition (HD) movies. It has a three-inch, high-resolution liquid crystal
display (LCD) on the back for viewing images. The image output can be displayed on a television by plugging the camera
into an HD television through the camera’s HDMI port using a third-party HDMI compatible cable available from Radio
Shack.
The camera is powered by a En-EL3e battery which is common to other Nikon cameras such as the D200.
It uses an SD memory card.
In late November 2008, the cost of the camera body was $1,300 USD.
By late December 2008, The cost had dropped to $900 USD.
