D70 first impressions

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Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.


http://tinyurl.com/drbuv

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"Richard" <pullano@epmtyess.net> wrote in message
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> Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/drbuv

Looks good. Did you make any adjustments to the default settings, and what
mode are you shooting in?

Thanks.

Sheldon
sheldon@sopris.net

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Richard <pullano@epmtyess.net> writes:
> Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.
> http://tinyurl.com/drbuv

Nice shots. I can see you're not in the US. You'd get arrested here
for taking pictures of a bridge like that. The cops would think you
were planning to blow it up or something ;-(.

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Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Richard <pullano@epmtyess.net> writes:
>> Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.
>> http://tinyurl.com/drbuv
>
> Nice shots. I can see you're not in the US. You'd get arrested here
> for taking pictures of a bridge like that. The cops would think you
> were planning to blow it up or something ;-(.

I am not aware of this bridge, so it could be a coincidence. But ...
there is a Red River on the Dakota/Minnesota border that flows north ...
so my assumption is that this is the same river and in fact, this bridge
would be in the United States. But you never now what happens when you
assume ;-)

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I used the "P" mode for most pictures. I did go to aperture Priority
for a few that I wanted to ensure more DOF with. I also used photoshop
to sharpen the pictures and to adjust the brightness and colors a bit.
Also took out a light standard or two and a bit of junk (trees and
branches) in the water.
Richard

Sheldon wrote:

> "Richard" <pullano@epmtyess.net> wrote in message
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>
>>Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.
>>
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/drbuv
>
>
> Looks good. Did you make any adjustments to the default settings, and what
> mode are you shooting in?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sheldon
> sheldon@sopris.net
>
>

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The same Red River and it is in Canada, straight North of Minnesota
N Dakota.

Richard

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Richard <pullano@epmtyess.net> writes:
>>
>>>Just got my D70 and wanted to share some of my first pictures.
>>>http://tinyurl.com/drbuv
>>
>>Nice shots. I can see you're not in the US. You'd get arrested here
>>for taking pictures of a bridge like that. The cops would think you
>>were planning to blow it up or something ;-(.
>
>
> I am not aware of this bridge, so it could be a coincidence. But ...
> there is a Red River on the Dakota/Minnesota border that flows north ...
> so my assumption is that this is the same river and in fact, this bridge
> would be in the United States. But you never now what happens when you
> assume ;-)
>

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> "Parker" <nothing@whatsoever.net> wrote in message
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>> <newsbirdie2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Pictures look nice. Did you use the kit lens? I'm curious why you
>>> choose the D70 over the Canon DR 350 XT? I'm currently debating
>>> between these two myself.
>>
>>
>>
>> Go for the Canon - and that's not the knee-jerk advice of a blindfolded
>> 'Cannonite'
>>
>>
>> I've recently used both cameras and found the D70 to be a typical Sony
>> chipped offering - harsh pictures that initially convey a false sense of
>> sharpness, but which turn out to have little real fine detail and
>> incapable of supporting large crops without degenerating the image.
>>
>> I ran a lot of comparison shots on both cameras and found the Canon to be
>> consistently better in every respect - colour, detail, resolution
>> (expected because of the larger pixel count) and built in flash
>> functionality.
>>
>
> And yet some reviews have complained of soft images, could this be the
> same back focus issue of the 20D?


I checked my example (since returned while I finalise my decision) with the
kit lens using the downloadable D70 focus test.

It was focussing correctly (as was the D70). Yes, the images were a little
bit soft (for my taste, anyway) but I put it down to the lens which is as
cheap and nasty a thing as you could hope to find.

Having said that, the softness was fairly minimal - and not a few shots were
quite sharp, depending on the aperture.

The thing that I noticed was that the Nikon offered an illusion of sharpness
and detail - but when zoomed and/or cropped it was easy to spot just how
superficial that apparent resolution was. Start any serious cropping and
the image just fell apart in terms of clarity and resolution. I've seen
this on the Sony sensor before.

The Canon, on the other hand, seemed to have real substance to the shots -
loads of detail that stood up to drastic cropping and still produced
exceptionally clean and very detailed images.

As stated, I'm about to buy the 350 with a grip (it does look a bit
'Mattel-like' without it) and a reasonable lens in the 28-70mm range - the
package will cost more than the D70 kit with rebate, but I just *know* that
I'll never be satisfied with the D70 (or any of its Sony clones like the
istD & istDS) after seeing what the little Canon could do.