Nikon D70 Review

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Nikon D70
4.3 stars
Average rating for this product is: 4.3 out of 5

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Stefan Lorett's Review of Nikon D70

10th Apr 2004

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Image Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    3.5 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    1 - 4 Weeks
  • Battery Life
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    5 stars
Good Points

Picture quality, ease of use and use of Nikon regular lenses


Bad Points

Battery guage a bit deceptive and easy to reset f stop when zooming in on monitor


General Comments

Previously a Pentax 6X7 and Spotmatic user I needed a digital SLR for work. Controls and choice of programmes meant I could change over almost seamlessly. My usual panic about whether I had bracketed enough is now gone. I bought the Nikon D70 Digital Camere ten days ago, taken about 1000 shots and had no problems except that the battery guage goes from full to empty rather suddenly and only gives about half an hours warning. The only shots that it struggles with is misty landscapes, best to focus manually. Domestic lighting especially with an orange table cloth threw the automatic white balance but manual adjustment sorted it out pretty quickly.

Its brilliant, BUT and its me not the camera, keep your tripod handy, its a shame to lose the resolution and lens quality to camera shake. I've bought the nikon 24/85 zoom and a sigma 15/30 zoom both of which work well with the camera. On the longer lens settings (particularly the effective 127 on the nikon zoom camera shake is a worry especially at lower ISO's especially with such a light camera.
Use Nikon capture 4 to run it from your computer and try the time-lapse feature, though if your serious about image manipulation use photoshop not nikon's own software which has a rather childish interface for such a sophisticated camera.
If you buy it try photographing the moon. I did the evening I got it home... NASA eat your heart out.

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