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Nikon D70s Body only
An enriched version of Nikon D70, this digital SLR encompasses a 6-megapixel sensor and dishes out excellent performance coupled with superior picture quality.
Among the advancements from D70, you will find a heavier lithium-ion battery. Also the menu display and autofocus system performs better. It may take some time you get used to the functioning of the controls. So scanning through the user guide wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Weighing 2.5 pounds with the battery and CompactFlash card intact, the camera has an 18mm-to-70mm zoom lens (27mm-to-105mm- 35mm equivalent).
The 2-inch LCD is luminous enough to be seen clearly even in extreme daylight but the viewfinder lags behind.
A mode dial present allows you to select from among programmed automatic, fully automatic, manual, shutter-priority modes. Scene modes comprise Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Landscape etc.
That apart the common features such as resolution and compression, ISO, white balance can also be operated without opening the menu system.
Making use of the fully automated mode and default autofocus, beginners will be able to use it as a point and shoot camera.
Digital Vari-Program (scene) modes can tell you the perfect camera settings for a given shooting situation.
The center-weighted metering spot can be twisted to 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, or 12mm. You also have the choice of spot or 3D-color-matrix metering. So also, the white balance can be adjusted.
Shutter speeds of D70s is between 30 seconds to 1/8,000 second and the ISO sensitivity is between 200-1,600.
Flash photography options of D70s is highly impressive. Flash syncs enables you to have better control over the amount of light to want to have in your pictures while Slow sync helps you to alter balance between flash and the present elucidation.
A CompactFlash card can store 9 full-resolution shots taking just about 4 seconds in the Fine JPEG compression setting.
General shooting mode takes pictures at 1fps. With in flash, shot-to-shot pictures take 2 seconds. Start up time of D70s is approximately 0.6 second while the shutter lag was just 0.35 second in bright light. The focus assist lamp was of good help in dark conditions.
Performance wise, this SLR is first-rate. Picture quality is excellent with minimal chromatic aberrations. Colour reproduction was near perfect. Though some noise is apparent at ISO 1.600, the image quality still remains admirable.
With some noticeable advancements over D70, the Nikon D70s is undoubtedly among the better digital SLRs.
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I absolutely love this camera
I have not have had gr8 experiences with cameras in the past so was very apprehensive abt purchasing this. But thankfully, this camera has not caused me too much trouble. There are enough number of features to keep me satisfied. I have used higher megapixel cameras before but still feel, this 6 MP has delivered much much better results. Most of the pictures I took were of the highest quality. I especially loved the fact that even at high ISO’s, the picture quality was very very good. The zoom lens function was also nice. I read my reviews abt good night shots but to be honest, for me the flash shots were the only disappointing feature of this camera. Doesn’ta make a lot of difference to me though as I hardly take night shots. Impressive camera no doubt.
User Rating : 8 /10  (
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saiju67 on
Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:38:52 GMT
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