Getting familiar
with the
D70
 When buying a new camera it is a good idea to sit down with
your new
friend and spend some time getting aquainted. Put it in front of you
and just look at it for awhile. Turn it around, try to remember every
bump, button and knob that it presents to you. Then pick it up and feel
the weight, try to find a balance when you hold it in different
positions. See how your hands fit around it. Try to find the quickest
way of accessing different controls.
The right hand is pretty much a done deal on this camera but many
people get confused about what to do with the left hand. Most pros will
reccomend that you wrap the left hand around the bottom of the lens. It
will help you steady the camera and allow you to zoom the lens without
having to move your hand. And always keep the neck strap around your
neck (unless the camera is mounted on a tripod).
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Nikon D70 Digital SLR - online review
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| Page 1 - Back of Camera controls |
Page 2 - Top of Camera
controls
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Page 3 - Front of Camera controls
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Page 4 - Using Compact Flash cards
and making Quality and
Size image settings
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Page 5 - Taking pictures on full
automatic with Digital
Vari-Programs settings
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Page 6 - Taking pictures on
automatic and manual with
Exposure Modes settings
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Page 7 - Downloading images to the computer with Nikon View
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Page 8 - Editing images with Nikon Capture Editor
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Page 9 - Editing images with Adobe PhotoShop CS
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Gallery 01 - JPEG BASIC - no
software
adjustments (flat afternoon light)
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Gallery 02 - RAW on a rainy day -
Elephant's Day Off (flat scene, flat light, heavy rain)
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Gallery 03 - Bright Scene - Digital Vari-Programs settings
(fully automatic)
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Gallery 04 - Bright Scene - Exposure Modes settings
(semi-automatic and manual)
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Gallery 05 - Color chart and various scenes with white
balance settings
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Please
bear with me for a short while, I am trying to find a way of doing a
review that does not
look like a copy of dpreview or steves-digicams. This means that the
review will probably look fairly sloppy and unfocused at first, and
change directions a few times. Hopefully it will find it's way fairly
soon.
The unexpectedly large amount of interest in the Nikon Factory
Tour article on this
website has caused for some delays in getting this review out. There
are some interesting new business developments that have come out of
this situation and I will be making some announcements regarding these
developments in a few days.
I would like to thank everyone who has linked to my website in the last
week and also for all the kind emails and questions about the new Nikon
D70. I promise everyone that there is a lot more to come.
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January 22, 2006
One of the new developments that has come out of this situation is that
I have moved back to the US. It has not been the easiest of
transitions, where I used to be a relatively big fish swimming in a
third world pond, I am now an unemployable baby boomer trying to find
his place in an America that has changed quite a lot, since I first
left it for South East Asia more than twenty years ago.
Financial backing is sorely needed for this website and a series of
ebooks and digital workflow seminars, that I would like to spin from
this website. If you find this short note and have the available
finances and inclination to work with me on this project please contact
me at george@dpmac.com, thank you.
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