Nikon - D70 Review

I have owned the Nikon D70s for almost two years and have taken well over 12,000 photographs with it. The D70 has an extaordinary battery life, a large variety of both Nikon and non-Nikon lenses.

The D70s allows complete manual control like a traditional 35mm camera, but also offers a wide range of user friendly automatic modes allowing budding photographers to get a feel for the camera.

There is a large variety of accessories available for the D70s including a great Nikon speedlite flash, remote shutter release, off-camera flash bracket, etc.

The body of the camera is sturdy and well constructed, but be advised that it is quite heavy - so keep this in mind and remember your tripod if you will be shooting for long periods of time.

One drawback is that the exposure does tend to be a little dark in automatic mode, not a problem when setting exposure manually. Colors are vibrant and when you master the settings, you cn avoid the heavy grain that is common in digital photography. I have had several large prints made without any loss of detail or excessive grain.