Nikon D70

Advantages: Nikon build-quality. SLR flexibility. Great pictures. Fantastic battery life.
Disadvantages: Much bulkier than a pocket camera - one for a real enthusiast

...price, don't hesitate. Very fairly, Nikon have made the updated firmware available for download, so now I effectively have a D70S except for the larger screen at the back (bit difficult to download that unless you work on Starship Enterprise!) And now back to the plot............ ******************************************************************** IT HAD TO GO I have to admit that I blow hot and cold on the subject of digital cameras. I'm on ...
...of a reserve battery. Even Nikon only claim 90 minutes of use, and I'm sure it's worse than that, especially when friends want to see the pictures before you get back to base. Thirdly, it doesn't boot up very quickly, nor does it fire within an acceptable delay period. I don't think I'd thought this through at the time, but it more or less limits me to non-action photos, and if I'm ever going to persuade myself to junk-in ALL my celluloid cameras, ... Read review

Advantages: Its a full digital SLR with interchangeable lenses
Disadvantages: Slight noise at 400ISO, poor strap design, nowt else !

...now own not only the Nikon D70 with the superb 18-70mm DX lens, but also the 70-300mm G lens for an extra £100 ! * FIRST IMPRESSIONS Its big and a lot heavier than the Fuji, but fits nicely into my hands. All the controls are very well placed ergonomically and I can adjust most essential settings now (after 2 weeks use) without taking my eye off the viewfinder. With my 256MB 40x Lexar CF card, I can take 74 JPG fine large (second best overall, ...
...will vary for everyone, and Nikon have given us plenty of choice in this matter. I settled on Large Image setting (6MP), Fine, Optimise Image to Vivid, ISO 200, and auto white balance. My sample images below were taken using these settings and no other processing has been used, except cropping to smaller sizes. ------------------ (boring bit for non astronomers follows, sorry !) As I am an astronomer, the long exposure settings were one of the ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant Camera
Disadvantages: Doesn't come with a card

...Yes the Nikon D70 is a serious piece of kit, and we have been after one for ages. The delay was not restricted solely by price, as there is a serious shortage of these cameras available in the UK (possibly world wide) and if you are lucky enough to find the body, the lens that everyone wants is even more scarce (more about that later) so that’s the availability, pretty much impossible, we eventually found ours in a small shop in Inverness, and I ...
...photography we have always had Nikon (starting with the 401 then moving to the F80) and Nikons lenses are on the whole interchangeable between cameras, but the 401 doesn’t fit the F80 so it is always worth checking before you buy. One of the first things that you find out when you switch to a digital SLR is that the focal length of a lens on the digital is equivalent to 1.5 times that of the same lens on a standard SLR camera. This means that a 18-70 ... Read review

Advantages: well made, handles well, ease of use, multi-featured, reliable
Disadvantages: fiddly to change features until used to system

The Nikon D70 follows in the Nikon tradition. It is a digital camera that handles like the superb professional cameras its shape and features are based upon. The build quality and handling are superb. This is a camera that I, as a former photographer and still taking pics to sell, am happy to use and be confident it won't let me down. At the best quality setting, which I always use, using a 1Gb Flash Memory Card, it will porduce 291 images, all of ...
...plate film cameras. The Nikon D70 gets me back to the tried and trusted 35mm camera format with many added plus facilities. Once you get used to the system, you can change the film speed in seconds. The auto-focus can be set to the spot or area you chose, again in seconds, and works fast enough to keep up with shooting the 3 frames per second the D70 will keep up for as long as you are likely to ever need it. Just set to the action mode and keep ... Read review

Advantages: Overall fantastic camera, fast shutterspeed, quick shutter release, great lens!
Disadvantages: Neck strap?

...Canon 300D Rebel and this Nikon D70 in the end, after comparing the specifications and giving each a little test run in the shops, I decided the D70 was a little closer to what I needed, finding water fascinated I was very interested to test this 1/8000 shutter speed on a waterfall or whatnot. It's fantastic! so easy to handle, fits straight into your hand snugly, lasts for an incredible amount of time if you forget to switch it off *blushes* and ...
...main reason I chose the Nikon D70 over the Canon 300D was the lens that came with it, being a student I couldn't afford to blow a few hundred pounds on a second lens just to take the odd landscape shot, this lens is incredible for a beginner, producing sharp images with very little distortion even at the extremes. Having a good quality zoom lens with little loss of quality was a relief also, as I went for the 18-70mm option over the 28-70mm I found ... Read review