Marc vO
New member
Excellent camera which I bought a few months ago. It feels great, the right materials are used, the rubber is comfortable. The design is superb, all the buttons are placed at the right place.
Of course I doubted between this Nikon and the Canon 350D… I previously owned a Nikon F70 and I am glad I chose for the Nikon D70s: everything feels familiar. I find it easy to use. The manual is very good, easy to understand and with interesting tips. The battery life is incredible. The Nikon has a well placed AE-L/AF-L button which enables you to lock the current exposure and focus as long as you hold the button (even if you press or release the shutter release button) – interesting to use when you like making panorama-shots out of several shots.
Image quality is very good, this also depends on what lens you use. I use the Nikkor kit lens 18-70 (equivalent 27-105) which is a good travel companion. Please check out the several settings of the image quality: I like the “vivid” setting (vivid colours with extra sharpness) but of course this is personal. The build-in flash of the D70s covers to 18 mm which I find important (I don’t know if this is the case with the Canon 350D). I would prefer if the flash would be more powerful, although you can fix a lot with Photoshop.
I also like the very low noise level, even at high ISO settings.
What could be better: the software you get is very basic, Photoshop is much better. I also think that Nikon, since the camera offers the possibility to work in “RAW”, should deliver its software for RAW conversion for free. You cannot call the D70s really cheap, so the least Nikon should do is deliver it with all the necessary software.
Problems:
None
Of course I doubted between this Nikon and the Canon 350D… I previously owned a Nikon F70 and I am glad I chose for the Nikon D70s: everything feels familiar. I find it easy to use. The manual is very good, easy to understand and with interesting tips. The battery life is incredible. The Nikon has a well placed AE-L/AF-L button which enables you to lock the current exposure and focus as long as you hold the button (even if you press or release the shutter release button) – interesting to use when you like making panorama-shots out of several shots.
Image quality is very good, this also depends on what lens you use. I use the Nikkor kit lens 18-70 (equivalent 27-105) which is a good travel companion. Please check out the several settings of the image quality: I like the “vivid” setting (vivid colours with extra sharpness) but of course this is personal. The build-in flash of the D70s covers to 18 mm which I find important (I don’t know if this is the case with the Canon 350D). I would prefer if the flash would be more powerful, although you can fix a lot with Photoshop.
I also like the very low noise level, even at high ISO settings.
What could be better: the software you get is very basic, Photoshop is much better. I also think that Nikon, since the camera offers the possibility to work in “RAW”, should deliver its software for RAW conversion for free. You cannot call the D70s really cheap, so the least Nikon should do is deliver it with all the necessary software.
Problems:
None