I would rather wait until real production models are available and get feedback from people who actually pay for their own D70 at camera stores. Without access, they would lose the source of their news stories and would therefore lose big time to their competition, i.e. A lot of reporters simply wouldn't provide negative comments on large corporations in fear that they would be denied access to top management in those companies in the future. We had a similar problem in the US financial news reporting a couple of years back.
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are they free to point out weaknesses in the D70 that could affect sales and won't anger Nikon, which may deny this special arrangement next time Nikon has a new hot DSLR such as the very much anticipated D2X? My problem with this kind of arrangement is whether the reviewer can provide totally objective opinions? E.g. Whoever has had a D70 for long enough to write a review must be getting a pre-production model directly from Nikon under special arrangement. At this point, any exclusive review for this hot camera will generate a lot of interest (to their web sites). The D70 will go on sale around mid March and therefore the camera is not even available to the general public yet.
I guess it's a free world to be stupid and make it public for all to see.įorget about Ken Rockwell for the time being.
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Why would anyone buy a $5000 DSLR for use with slow lenses? Or why would anyone buy the Kodak and use it at high ISO speeds? Also, he was testing the SLR/n at iso 800 and saying that "the higher ISOs are critical for getting sharp results with the slower lenses popular with amateurs". It's well known that high resolution brings out artifacts due to optical defects. Many people actually prefer not to obstruct natural light with flash.Ĭomparing image noise of a 14 MP slr with a 6 MP one isn't fair if you don't first low-pass filter the 14 MP image to yield the same resolution as the 6 MP one is capable of. It's useful for fill-flash photography in bright light (sunlight) at high sensitivity settings, but that's it. But a critical approach is apparently beyond this guy.Īll he seems to care about is the 1/500 s flash sync, and he makes it sound like it was critical for all action or portrait work. Based on that, he could actually say that or the opposite. How would he know? The camera isn't sold yet, and to say a thing like that would mean that he would use, say, 5-10 D100's and 5-10 D70's, use them so long that many of them stop working. "It's as durable as the D100, too!" he says.
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