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I guess the limitations are ISO, which really runs out at 400 due to banding and noise and resolution which limits cropping, other than that you got a real tool. Noise can be handled to some extent with software editing.
Batteries may be one issue you could encounter, some of us on here have made our own Li-Ion batteries and JK's website has some info on that. The standard D1x battery *should* provide juice for about 300 NEF exposures but in reality that can drop to less than 100 in the cold or with a tired battery.
If you encounter black images and strange behaviour suspect the battery. Standard Nikon batteries have a life expectancy of not much more than a year of reasonable use before they 'slow down', I have a box full of dead ones.
When I built my first Li-Ion battery I got bored after 1,000 exposures and recharged while it was still going OK. I tend never to allow them to go completely flat so I don't really know what they are capable of.
The built in battery is another thing to bear in mind, that retains your settings and time/date, I have details of the battery and how to get at it if the need arrises, it's a soldering iron job but nothing too testing.
Like Eric said, a two button reset is a good idea, it resets most of the settings to the factory settings which isn't a bad place to start. There are two buttons The CSM and ISO,
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