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I have a new digital camera |
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Written by Jay Stewart
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Monday, 10 April 2006 |
I have had a Nikon D70 for over a year now (has it been almost 2 years already? wow!). My photographer buddy made me a deal I couldn't refuse on an upgrade to a D100 (yes, D one hundred, not a typo), so I sold my D70 and switched to the D100.
Both cameras are very, very similar, 95% of the controls and operations are the same. Image quality between the two is almost identical. The D100 seems to focus a little faster, and has more of the focus type controls where you can easily get to them and change them. The focus system seems to be a little more hit and miss, not sure if that is me not being used to the way the D100 focuses, or if it is something about the different AF engines each camera has.
I took advantage of the opportunity here to get rid of both my sigma lenses. Once was a 28-80 that had a macro mode, but it had only been on the camera maybe twice. The other is a 100-300mm lens, and it was used a fair amount, but it was a cheap lens and the quality wasn't as good as I wanted.
Right now my two primary lenses are the Nikkor AF-D F3.5 18-70mm "kit" lens, which came with my D70. This is a great lens, and is fairly "wide" when you account for the magnification factor of the D70/100. The second is a Nikkor AF lens as well, F3.5 and it is 28-200. This lens lets me get as close as I want 99% of the time and is what tends to stay on the camera for the most part. My only complaints are the F while zoomed in is too small, and it doesn't do wide enough of an angle, hence my keeping the 18-70mm kit lense for that.
All of this time I have been using a Sandisk 1 gig memory card, which is a 45x, with a cheap lexmark 256 meg as a backup (no speed rating so I know it is slow!). Since I have a nicer camera now, I ordered myself a 2 gig Sandisk card, one of the UltraII ones that does an 85x transfer speed. This should make a nice primary card and let me use my current 1 gig card as a backup.
www.dpreview.com review
of the Nikon D70.
www.dpreview.com review
of the nikon D100
Link to Nikon's product info on the D70.
Link to Nikon's product info for the D100.
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