Nikon D70 to be upgraded to an 8MP Nilkon D70S

Or so the (informed?) speculation suggests:

http://www.ephotozine.com/forum/viewanswers.cfm?qid=20921

Carrigman

 

according to the specs it'll be a 6.1mp - in fact - i hardly can see ANY
difference to the d70...

sid

 

Biggest change seems to be the remote cable.

 

USB2?

 

I would say many people would be happy just to get a hole to screw a shutter
release cable into, a 100 ISO, a mirror lockup and an optional vertical grip
(from Nikon). The camera has been a huge success for Nikon, and I'm not so
sure another 2 megapixels will make or break it. It they do go to 8, I can
see them keeping the camera in the line, assuming they can come up with a
price spread between the old and new camera to keep it alive. As usual,
just MHO.

 

No. USB Full Speed.

In other words, USB1.1 under a new name

 

That page has no specs on it. Where are the specs you are talking about?

 

Unchanged. It's still not high-speed USB 2.

 

page 201-205 of the d70s user manual
sid

 

d70s: no iso 100, no mirror lock up as far as i can tell, no 8mp, dont know
about vertical grip.

check http://tinyurl.com/576ra - youll find the specs only here...

sid

 

check http://tinyurl.com/576ra - youll find the specs-only version here...

 

More pixels is not what the D70 needs. I'd be more interested in a
"D100s."

 

Where did you see that there is connection for a remote cable? I didn't see
that in the spec.

There is a company that has been retrofitting the D70 with a connection for
a remote cable, the same company that's making the after-market grip, see:
http://www.harbortronics.com/VGD70.asp

 

I put links to the D50 and D70 manuals up on my web site, at
"http://digitalslrinfo.com" and have added them to the table.

"http://www.conneti.com/d50_usermanual.pdf"
"http://www.conneti.com/d70s_usermanual.pdf"

Of course we're assuming that this isn't an early April Fool's joke. It
just doesn't make sense that Nikon would not fix the major complaint
areas on the D70, i.e. the lack of mirror lock-up, no ISO 100, and the
lack of a vertical grip.

Steve

 

How do you determine "major complaint areas"?

I agree on the need for ISO 100. While I don't have particular need for a
vertical grip, I can understand why it might be desirable.

But my D70 already has a mirror lockup function. It is on the main menu and
I have used it while cleaning dust off the sensor.

 

No, the feature missing is the ability to take a photo with the mirror
locked up, eliminating the effect of vibration due to mirror motion on the
photo.

 

Nikon has consistently kept mirror lockup out of all but their
"professional" cameras since they started making cameras with
mirrors. I consider it pretty optimistic to expect them to change
that now.

 

I'm in the opposite: I would like mirror lockup and a vertical grip.
No need for ISO 100 as long as the 200 is very good.

Very simple: A D100 with D70 electronics.

That's just for sensor cleaning. See other post.

-espen

 

What's the big deal about this? There's an IR remote. If you're close enough to
use a cable then you're close enough to reach over the camera to use the IR.

Maybe an additional sensor on the rear would be a better idea

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Except for the Nikkormat.

Personally, I think that (with a few exceptions) the self-timer works just
as well to reduce vibrations.