Nikon D70 Expert Reviews

The D70, announced on 28th January 2004 is Nikon's answer to the new sub-$1,000 digital SLR market, its clear competition being the Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel) announced last August. The D70 is revealed by Nikon exactly two years since the D100, ...

Excellent resolution and sharpness, seems better than EOS 300D / EOS 10D, Neutral color balance, 'Nikon like' (tuned towards skin tones), Good clean sharpening algorithm leaves almost no 'halo' artifacts, Low noise even at high sensitivities, more ...

Moir� / maze artifact pattern visible in certain images at the limit of resolution, Bug which incorrectly tags images as Adobe RGB (we expect a firmware fix), Vignetting / lens shading on the AF-S DX 18-70mm lens at 18 mm, F3.5, Still a very average ...

Shortly after Canon announced the EOS 300D (Digital Rebel) and it made its way into reviewers hands it was fairly clear that Canon were offering a formidable package at an excellent price which would be the mark for affordable digital SLR's of the ...

I discussed the RAW format at the beginning of the review. On the D70, you can take a RAW image alone, or a RAW plus a JPEG. For the latter, the JPEG will always be at the Large/Basic setting -- it was also fixed on the Digital Rebel. The D70 does not ...

Excellent image quality, though moire can be a problem ; Amazing performance ; A great deal, even at $1299 with the lens ; Low noise levels ; AF-assist lamp ; great low light focusing ; Tons of features and manual settings (way more than the ...

Too much moire in images from a $1000 camera ; PictureProject software leaves much to be desired ; Slow USB connection

I like to complain about proprietary batteries in digital cameras. For one, they're expensive -- $45 a pop. My other usual complaint is that you can't pop in "regular" batteries when the proprietary one dies. That's not the case with the D70, though. ...

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The D70 is an affordable digital SLR that delivers a combination of innovative features, robust performance and excellent image quality. Built from the ground up to be a digital SLR, the D70 incorporates a DX format 6.1-effective megapixel CCD sensor ...

Here comes the Nikon D70 competitively priced to challenge the Canon EOS-300D DIGITAL. Boasting a 6.1 megapixel Nikon DX format image sensor, 3 fps burst shooting, instant start-up, as well as seven Digital Vari-Program modes, this is but just the tip ...

The Nikon D70 Body Only Digital Camera has a /8000 second shutter speed for the performance of your life. This camera will produce breathtakingly good images. The great thing is that you don't have to pay to develop them before you view them. The 25 ...

Fast response, great manual controls, fast startup-speed and quality.

Very poor durability.

We have not found a sample of really bad moire. But we feel that the AA filter of the D70 is not very strong:

Nikon D70 Review: First ContactIt would be fair to say that digicams - point-and-shoot compact cameras, hold the lions share of digital sales today. Quality has gone up, prices have come down (considerably), and this all bodes well for the consumer ...

When I first handled the Nikon D100 I told the Nikon people that I thought theyâd really gotten it right. Now after two years of shooting with a D100 I am even more convinced that the D100 is just about the perfect digital SLR for most photographers. ...

Iâd heard reports that this lens showed vignetting at the 18mm end, so I made a point of making a lot of photos with the lens set to 18mm and looked for this in the images. I simply did not see it at all. There is some drop-off in illumination from ...