For the ability to review the camera Nikon D70s many thanks Alexander Rybalkin.
Nikon D70s Review
Nikon D70s is an old DSLR, an upgraded version Nikon D70. Nikon D70s was introduced back in 2005. At that time except Nikon D70 there was not a single advanced amateur camera. Then introduced the camera Nikon D50, the latter turned out to be a more stripped-down model and refers to ordinary Nikon amateur cameras (see nameplate) Nikon D70s announced along with the legendary full-time lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm 1: 3.5-4.5G ED DX SWM IF Asphericalwhose price for 2005 was above 1000 cu
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Nikon D70s uses a sensor on 6 MP, with the Nikon D70s you can take pictures 3008 * 2000 pixels (Altogether 6.016.000 pixels, it is not clear where Nikon gets the number 6.1 MP). Now only 6 megapixels may seem like archaism, but for 2005 such a matrix was considered not bad. I used it for a long time Nikon D40 with the same matrix as the Nikon D70s, I have a lot of printed pictures 20 * 30 format with six megapixels crumbs Nikon D40 and I cannot say that 6 MP is not enough. In general, the 'large' pixels of older first-generation Nikon cameras have their own unique charm.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
By the way, all cameras: Nikon D70, Nikon D70s, Nikon D40, Nikon D50 use the same sensor, so the quality of photos from these cameras will be almost the same. Nikon D70s can use value ISO 200 to 1600... Strangely, the Nikon D70s doesn't have a 'bloated' Hi ISO like the Nikon D100 и Nikon D40. You can use the Nikon D70s auto ISO functionTrue, it’s a pity that in the camera menu You cannot set the maximum ISO sensitivity for this function.. auto ISO always works from the set value to the maximum ISO 1600. short shutter speedwhich can be set in the menu auto ISO is only 1/125 of a second.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Noise level at high ISO values is not particularly pleasing. Modern Nikon cameras have gone very far in noise reduction compared to the Nikon D70s. By the way, in the camera no noise reduction function when using high ISO sensitivity, There is only the function of reducing noise at slow shutter speeds.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s at high ISO
Minimum excerpt Nikon D70s has 1 / 8000 seconds, this is a good indicator, it’s just a pity that the camera does not support ISO 100. Also, the camera does not support high speed FP syncBut Minimal excerpt with flash is 1/500 second... 1 / 500s is a very good indicator even for modern cameras. Nikon D70The Nikon D70s are the first Nikon cameras to support remote control of external flashes, such as Nikon SB-800, SB-600, SB-500, SB-700, SB-900, SB-910.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
True, using Nikon CLS Nikon D70s camera can control only one group of flashes and only one channel. To external flash set on fire from Nikon D70s, you need to set the flash mode in the camera to 'C', and on external flash select group A and the third control channel.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Nikon D70s cannot boast of its high shooting speed and performance. Nikon D70s can shoot at maximum speed 3 frames per second. The camera is very small frame buffer. When the noise reduction function for slow shutter speeds is disabled, the buffer contains:
- 4 frames in RAW format and in RAW + JPEG format
- 9 frames in JPEG Fine L
- 49 frames in JPEG Basic S
If you turn on the noise reduction function, then in frame buffer only 3 frames in RAW format and 7 frames in JPEG L format will fit. For those who shoot in JPEG, the buffer will seem pretty good. RAW (NEF) files weigh approximately 5.25 MB each.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
For measuring exposure the camera has a 1,005-pixel CCD RGB sensor, the same as Nikon D700 и D300 (in more detail here) And the focusing system is based on 5-point Multi-CAM 900same as Nikon D70, Nikon D100 и Nikon D50 (in more detail here). The Nikon D70s' focusing module is much nicer than the three-point 'cropping' found in Nikon D40, D40x и Nikon D60. To measurement work exposure and work white balance need to get used to.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Features Nikon D70s:
- The camera has an additional monochrome display for quick access to basic settings. True, the display backlight is turned on not with the camera's power lever, but with the help of an additional button.
- The camera uses memory cards CF. My Nikon D70s made friends with the Transcend memory card without any problems CF 32GB 400X.
- The camera has a built-in focus motor, you can use the old class optics without problems AF.
- The camera battery is quite capacious. The Nikon D70s can use batteries from Nikon D200, D300, D300s, D700, D80, D90but not vice versa.
- The camera has a function bracketing. Can be used bracketing exposure и white balance.
- RAW files do not have compression settings and only support 12-bit color depthwhile RAW is stored in compressed form.
- When viewing pictures and moving to the menu, the camera slows down slightly, for me there is nothing wrong with that.
- When viewing photographs taken in an upright position and when zooming in on such photographs, zooming is not performed using the entire display area, but only using the center vertical bar. This is a bit unnerving.
- The camera can be controlled remotely using a simple remote control Nikon ML-L3
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
What is not in the Nikon D70s:
- Auto mode without flash. True, you can cheat, and in automatic mode, just turn off the rising built-in flash using the flash up button and the main selector.
- there is no way to automatically measure exposure with non-chip lenses such as Nikon AI-S.
- no image enhancement features like A-Dlighting, aberration control, distortion control, vignetting control.
- the central joystick of the camera does not have a central 'OK' button
- there is no focus mode in the camera AF-A, but only AF-S and AF-C. There is no button to switch the focus mode. To switch between AF-S and AF-C you need to pick your menu
- the camera cannot shoot in RAW + JPEG Fine mode, but only RAW + JPEG Basic. The same sore is present in Nikon D40
- there is no Info button for quick access to advanced settings, and the depth of field preview button is not programmable.
- in the camera that I had on the review was not Russian menu.
- Nikon D70 & Nikon D70s do not support the use of battery packs (boosters)
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Nikon D70s is an updated version Nikon D70. There are no serious differences in the cameras. The entire list of differences between Nikon D70 and Nikon D70s can be found in the Nikon D70 review. And here is the next model, Nikon D80, has just a sea of cardinal differences. Nikon D70s and Nikon D80 very very different cameras.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
Sample Photos on Nikon D70s
increase. Large format in the gallery at this link.
Personal impressions
Now used Nikon D70s costs about 100 cu, add here another 100 cu on the good lens, and you can get a good apparatus for simple photography. I didn’t like the small 2-inch display, It’s very difficult and unpleasant to view the material shot on it, it is more suitable only for picking the menu and viewing bar charts. In all other respects, the camera is pleasant and with its help you can get great photos if put a little work into it... Only after using modern cameras Nikon D70s seems to be 'brick'.
Sample photo on Nikon D70s
My recommendations for setting up the camera:
I like to shoot on Nikon D70s in the format JPEG. Using the CCD matrix installed in the Nikon D70s, you can immediately get a pretty good result. All cameras that use the same matrix can be viewed in the table. here.
To manage the images, I use the manual settings of the main parameters:
- Sharpening - sharpness
- Tone comp. - contrast
- Color Mode - color space (I, III - sRBG, II - ADOBE RGB)
- Saturation - Saturation
- Hue adjustment - color shift
- For nature: Shooting Menu -> Optimize Image -> Custom: Sharpening +2, Tone comp .: -1, Color Mode: III, Saturation: +, Hue adjustment: -3. Then select DONE (ready).
- For people (portrait photography): Shooting Menu -> Optimize Image -> Custom: Sharpening +2, Tone comp .: -2, Color Mode I, Saturation: +, Hue adjustment: 0. Then select DONE (ready).
- In this camera, when shooting in JPEGLong exposure noise reduction is also responsible for overall noise reduction. I include: Shooting Menu -> Long exp. NR: ON. By enabling this function, you can achieve a cleaner picture even at ISO 200. Important: when shooting with the 'Long exp. NR 'burst speed drops noticeably and amounts to about 1.5 frames per second (instead of the usual 3 fps).
- For shooting in JPEG I use bracketing white balance... Configured like this: CSM Menu -> 12 BKT set: WB bracketing. Bracketing included by pressing a button BKT left of the viewfinder eyepiece. Holding down the button BKT with the front selector (under the index finger) you need to select the value -2F 3 (bracketing with a shift of 3 units, 2 pictures are taken). Turns on bracketing by turning the front selector (under the thumb), while on the monochrome display appears BKT. White balance I set to AUTO mode with a correction of -3. So using bracketingcan get automatic white balance with a shift of -6 and -3 units (to create warm shades). During one shutter release, 2 files with different white balances will be recorded. Priority bracketing I choose from smallest to largest: SM Menu -> 13 BKT order: Under-> MTR-> OVER. I usually take a -6 shot, which is the first in a series of two shots. As practice has shown, almost always the picture with the warmest shade is the most successful.
- I always try to shoot at ISO 200. I always have the quality of the shots selected or 'JPEG FINE L ', or RAW. Unfortunately Nikon D70 does not shoot in RAW + format JPEG L FINE (RAW + only JPEG L BASIC).
- When shooting, I always use matrix metering exposure (Turned on by the button near the shutter button).
- I always use creative exposure control modes for shooting P, A, S, M.
- For focusing, I use focus tracking mode: CSM Menu -> 02 Autofocus: AF-C, and one focus point: CSM Menu -> 03 AF-area mode: Single Area. The desired focus point is selected with the joystick.
- To access the extended menu, follow: SET UP -> CSM menu -> detailed.
- Before a new shoot, I always perform quick formatting of the memory card by simultaneously pressing the burst button (to the left of JVI with the inscription Format) and buttons for turning on the backlight of the additional monochrome display (with the inscription Format). To confirm formatting, press this combination twice.
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Conclusions
Nikon D70s - morally outdated digital mirror camera. Now Nikon D70s is interesting mainly for its modest price for the used version, built-in focus motor, the ability to remotely control flashes and good control of the camera itself. Of the serious flaws: a small display and a small ISO range.
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My first SLR. I used it for more than 5 years. Impressions were the brightest.
what lens is the leaf taken from?
Here such https://radojuva.com.ua/2012/11/obzor-nikon-28-105-mm-3-5-4-5-af-d-nikkor/
Good evening. Arkadiy chi varto i chi could come to d70s + tair3? Crazy.
Without buying ice in one hour. Chasno z'avivya for the same price of Canon 450D.
well and in vain
The Nikon D70s was introduced back in 2005, the Nikon D7100 in 2013, and what difference is there in the quality of the pictures, where is the much-praised DD D7100. As for me, the pictures from the D70s are lively and comfortable to view.
Thanks for the review.
I’ll wait for it.
If you need high ISO and video - you need to take from the new, but as well as color and minimum processing then CCD steer.
“Nisam Vas Razumeo” (in Serbian). There is no need to show off - comment in Russian or “sve speeches ruski zabaravio” (in Serbian)?
A site on the Ukrainian domain .. and google translate to help you.
Despite the Ukrainian domain, the main message language remains Russian.
I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the political activities of Otto von Bismarck. If you can, read about Poland's foreign policy at the beginning of the century. In case of “victory” over the above-mentioned literary sources, I can recommend getting acquainted with indirect influences. Donkey?
Pavєl, well, ty, straight, pіzdєts yak smart
The domain is Ukrainian, the main language is Russian, the camera is Japanese, and the headquarters of Ukrainian nationalists is in Vienna.
For those who are confused, there is a universal reference to the destination.
A great camera for its time, but, alas, is no longer relevant. Now you can buy Nikon D80 for 2000 UAH. Of the less significant drawbacks, I also want to add USB 1.1 for those who use a cord to upload photos to a computer.
d-80 and does not rest against "x"
and in this photo exactly f / 1.8? somehow I can’t believe it, the background was painfully sharp.
more like f / 8.
https://radojuva.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nikon-d70s-sample-shots-1.jpg
Yes exactly. The farther the focus distance, the less blurred the background due to hyperfocal distance. Details here https://radojuva.com.ua/2012/11/hyperfocalnoe-dof-main/ and here https://radojuva.com.ua/2012/01/dof-best-lens-photo/
Very good SLR! It is a pity that when I bought it in 2006, no one advised me to buy a fifty kopeck piece for it ... Unfortunately, now it is inoperative and there is no way to indulge in high-aperture optics. The picture from it seems to be a little "film", warm, but there is already little detail.
Little detail? Well, you tell me too. I’m renting it myself and haven’t found anything better for myself, alas. I’m thinking about the D5100, but there isn’t much that is in the D70, I mean the settings, or the D200, only the same rake for convenience.
Yes, and in terms of quality, it’s precisely the detail that I don’t know that it also shot. D80, D90, D3000 and D3100, D5000 seem to be good, but not so much. If the D70 suddenly had a screen, even 3 inches, then I would talk about another and I didn’t think. If you squeeze a photo for sites, then the D70 can also deceive by issuing a photo for a photo with FF.
From the very pleasant undocumented features of Nikon D50, D70, D70s: Ability to fully work with UNCOMMODED flashes at shutter speeds shorter than 1/500. From personal experience - with a simple UFO-30 fired from a hot shoe, there were no traces of lamellas in the frame until 1/3200. With monoblocks, fired through the adapter "Hot shoe-sync-cord", everything worked fine too. The ability to illuminate an object against the setting sun and beautiful clouds is very expensive.
buy decent modern d800 or d600 cameras
And even better, both at once, because a few thousand dollars for a hobby cannot be a problem for anyone.
Yes, we will do :)
Today is 30.11.16/70/XNUMX, your cameras are out of date, and Great-grandfather dXNUMX is always young and shows excellent results.
... D600 due to jambs, even in China, they were forbidden to sell ..
Arkady, thanks for the reviews. When do you think you are resting? We are waiting for photos from your holidays in the mountains or at the seas. Or from Antarctica. Or from Atlantis. )))
I still haven’t recovered from the spring vacation trip, so far I do not plan on Feofania :)
In the yard 2013. I decided to replace my nikon d70s with something more modern and inexpensive. After analyzing some options and trying to shoot with more modern cameras, I decided not to change the camera :).
The D70 camera can be upgraded a little, the firmware 2.00 is added to it. The menu becomes like the D70s and the developers promise that they fixed a bug with focus. I myself requested and for all those whose hands are growing from the right place, I also recommend it.
Link to the download page and instructions:
for windows: https://nikoneurope-ru.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13910
for Mac: https://nikoneurope-ru.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13917
Read very carefully. At the end there is a link to a detailed description of the firmware installation process.
"You can get a good device for simple photography."
And what do you think is suitable for complex shooting? Or do you just write out of ignorance?
The device is not out of date, if your eye is already full of the 5 ″ screen of your smartphone - it's your problem and not the camera, my eyes ache after my Galaxy from its display, but this is nonsense.
ISO range is complete and complete. And so you tell me at least one camera model of absolutely any company, so that it has no digital noise at all (even barely noticeable) at ISO 1600. There is no such camera. Nothing has changed since that time. Everything remained the same, but they made a marketing transition from CCD to CMOS and the internal electronics improved - yes, the DD increased slightly, but these are all trifles. Globally, everything remained the same.
It's a shame that you pay attention to such innovations as AF-A or noise reduction for high ISO. If you shoot in ROW (and I’m shooting in it), then the latter is not needed at all.
Yes, and you read at best, amateurs with little experience.
And this camera still has a lot of potential - for 10-15 years, which is only worth its “bold pixel” and nice color. And to write that she is a brick is simply stupid.
Complex shooting, for example, commercial. I think there are a lot of factors playing here, for example, if you are filming a wedding on the D70s with its small display, even if you are strongly promoting the D70s, after anyone tries to look at the shot material on the tiny D70s monitor, it will immediately be clear that the camera is out of date or not. Also, Sergey, it’s not good that from my article you took only the negative moments described by me for the d70s, but you did not pay attention to my other comments about the camera.
I completely agree with every word!
My device was purchased in August 2006. Passed 115000 and the shutter began to be produced, the mirror falls and at the bottom, when shooting horizontally, a dark strip, which is removed due to cropping. The service “patched up” and promised another 2000-3000 thousand frames. On the occasion I got the same mileage 6300. In perfect condition and with a working battery, 500-600 RAWs. True, only the box. And what?! Since it is fresh, the colors are distinguished in the warm direction, which is very cool! Already "snitched" something Yes FF is great, but they shoot with a matchbox!
Greetings! How is d70 different from d70s and how critical are these differences? Thank you in advance.
The differences are described in this article, just read it before asking questions.
70/70s display 1.8/2″ usb 1/2 battery 400/550
Now D 70, with a mileage of 5k willows in good condition, as far as can be determined from the photo, can be found at a price of 1000 UAH. without glass. For lovers who want to plunge into the digital-mirror world for the first time, this is a godsend, before there were no such balls)) I would have bought it myself, to indulge, because I didn’t have cameras of this generation, and they say that the CCD sensor reproduces colors more naturally than CMOS. The only drawback I would note is the use of a compact flash memory card, not SD. SD at home like dirt, 20 pieces of different capacities, and in every laptop there is a card reader for them, but with CF there is a problem))
Although for two you can take D 80, probably a more reasonable purchase will be))
noise even at iso 200 is inadmissible and inadequate judging by examples of photos.
good afternoon
Do not kick out of ignorance
Please help
I bought this used camera. 7000 shots (checked by programs)
In almost all photographs, the lower part (1/6 photo approximately) is noticeably darker than the rest of the photograph
This is some kind of defect, or I just need to learn to photograph (before that there were only soap dishes)
Add photo
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Vladimir, show me pictures that show a uniformly lit subject. Yes, even the wall, but only evenly.
Another nuance - this cant is only in automatic modes, in PASM it is not.
Add a photo.
Another point - autofocus is not very good - (the photo is not clear at all, especially indoors, I tried to set the shutter speed shorter - I thought to change something - so the photos are completely dark - I opened the aperture at the minimum focal length to the maximum) -
http://s017.radikal.ru/i410/1310/40/b4bc1f4f0b06.jpg
photo above - auto mode
IMHO - this is some kind of defect.
but you need to check it on a banal white / gray sheet of paper, and not on the street.
Checked on the sheet - the same picture. Only is it an objective or a body? And why there is no defect in manual modes - it turns out a glitch with a carcass of some kind
I went to a photo studio - asked the photographer for a Tamron lens - the defect is almost invisible - but still there.
Tell me what is the reason
The shutter jams, you are in service .. and if it’s not difficult for you, write here how much they ask for a solution to this problem.
Apparently, the shutter was changed on your device. Or just a defective shutter.
Shutter problem, sagging mirror.
I generally do not understand the “writers” who criticize the author. In my opinion, the most balanced according to the estimates of photographic equipment and a wonderful adviser for the majority of sane readers.
Maybe the best of these sites. Thanks to Arkady.
Great camera! Bought in 2006 and still use it. I shoot in the open air, weddings, reports and nowhere and never failed! Snow, rain, frost, she doesn’t care at all! Little 6MP? Arkady wrote somewhere correctly, to paraphrase, doggy delirium, sorry. The main thing to get a highly artistic shot is glass, hands and head. If you have it, then cool photos can be received on any camera with any number of pixels. Yes, the display on it is small, not convenient. Then how did great photographers make their masterpieces film cameras, where there are no displays at all? Professionalism, intuition is the main thing! I do not consider myself to be high-level professionals and, especially, to great ones. But approximately such photos can be taken with this camera without problems. See link http://zhizdra.pl.ua/plener/
A beautiful woman in the frame +100 to the skill of the photographer))). Now I am looking at a lot of 1200 UAH for this camera, and I think ... - “There is nothing better for this money”
Thank you for the compliment and that charming girl in the frame! :) Yes, 90% of the photos in the open air, I made it D70S. Another drawback of this camera is its small dynamic. range. Therefore, it’s a little harder to shoot. Put a good glass and soap dishes, even for a great price, will rest!
You can shoot with bad glass and any “soap dish” as you write will rest.
there is an opportunity to buy Nikon d70s body + butler and adapter on
Soviet lenses. Price 8t.
The second option is Nikon d70s kit 18-70. Price 8500r
The third option is the Canon 30d kit 18-55 lens. Price 9t.
Which is more acceptable in terms of price and quality.
I have Nikon glasses 18-55, 18-105, 35 (1.8) and Helios 81h. The d3100 camera.
I would like to work with old technology
Option from 18-70 is very good. Glass is good, albeit dark (for me). I would not consider the option with a batlock at all (since the sense of it is zero). And for the canon with whale glass is just a little expensive (in my subjective opinion)
The main advantage of this camera is its CCD matrix, which surpasses modern CMOS matrices in colors and sharpness, the matrix in the old D40 is especially good! Nikon d3100, changed back to d40, pictures are much more colorful and sharper;)
The question is for all photographers: I shot d40s on d70, I encountered a BB problem, in principle I measure it in a room, but sometimes I need to go to shooting with a flash, and so the Auto BB problem can’t take a picture at all, I'm not talking about even in daylight Auto BB cannot make a normal measurement, and it is not always possible to make a measurement. What do you advise to do?
With a flash, the BB behaves quite correctly - no complaints. Just set the BB "flash shooting" and all things. If the tone does not suit you, make the correction with an additional wheel in the direction of blue or yellow tones. I have +3, that is, a blockage in the direction of blue tones. Plus, the general correction of the color tone +6, that is, in the direction of green tones. When shooting with incandescent lamps and a flash - that's it.
choose between Nikon D70s and Canon 450D
I don’t understand which is better =)
help please
camera for home for family so to speak
Bought d70s 31000 frames mileage. Everything works. But there are nuances. Black has no shades. Those. black is very black, “deep” black. Is this due to the fact that 12 bits, or some kind of jamb?
The D70 and D50 are Nikon's most suitable cameras for experimenting in the infrared range. Here's a weak anti-IR filter.