Photography

After my trip to Canada and Alaska in Summer 2005, I finally got a digital SLR as a replacement for my older Canon EOS 500 film camera.

I got a Nikon D70. This model’s price had dropped since the successor model, D70s, had already appeared on the market.

Nikon D70

Here are some technical specs:

  • 6.1 million effective pixels
  • Nikon DX format (size)
  • NEF (12-bit lossless compressed RAW)
  • JPEG (EXIF 2.21)
  • NEF+JPEG
  • 30 to 1/8000 sec shutter speed

6 Megapixels
Six megapixels seem to do the job perfectly fine for me.

DX Sensor
Since the digital sensor is smaller than regular film (sensor is Nikon DX format), focal length of regular lenses not designed for use on a digital SLR practically get extended by factor 1.5. A regular 50mm lense will therefore give you 50mm x 1.5 = 75mm focal length.

As part of the kit came a 18-70mm DX lense. As a DX lense, the length does not get extended since it was originally designed to be only used with a digital SLR.

NEF/RAW

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