Members with D70's (1 Viewer)

[Blackdog67]

Hi, I am currently saving my pennies for a Nikon D70 & was wondering if any of you guys out there who use a D70 have a gallery where I can view your results. It would also be great to know what lenses etc you use. :h?:

 

[rdspalm]

D70

Hi Blackdog,

I have a D70 and find it a great piece of kit. I dont have a great gallery of bird shots yet. I posted one shot of a Bateleur eagle in Scotland. You may like to view that thread under Rare Birds.

I use a Nikon 70 - 300 ED zoom which is a good lens. A bit hard to use on autofocus when you have a flying bird. At present I am exploring options for digiscoping. However I think most digiscopers tend to go for Nikon Coolpix 4500 or something similar.

Regards,

Richard

 

[geoff hurley]

Hi blackdog

attached are some photos using the nikon d70 with the nikon 300mm F4 lens with a nikon 1.4 converter, the support used was a bean bag. the autofocus on the above combination even in bright light is almost non existant and i always use the manual focus.
the photos show the full frame and a cropped image they are always to far away
the photo of the robin was taken with the 300mm lens only and hand held it almost jumped onto the lens.

i have also got the photo adapter for an Opticron ED80 scope which allows me to use the nikon d70 for digiscoping. i've not used it properly yet on some birds but will put an attachment on the next post of some chimney pots about 90-100yards away

hope this helps

cheers geoff

 

[geoff hurley]

as promised photo of using the nikon d70 and opticron scope.
the shot was taken through double glazing and about 10feet from the glass.
fortunatly it was bright day and the speed for the camera was kept to
1/160
tripod manfrotto and 200 model video head

forgot to mention all shots were taken using a home made remote release cable

there are also some photo in the gallery taken using the nikon set up

cheers geoff

 

[Blackdog67]

as promised photo of using the nikon d70 and opticron scope.
the shot was taken through double glazing and about 10feet from the glass.
fortunatly it was bright day and the speed for the camera was kept to
1/160
tripod manfrotto and 200 model video head

forgot to mention all shots were taken using a home made remote release cable

there are also some photo in the gallery taken using the nikon set up

cheers geoff

Thanks for that Geoff, Nice shots! I am new to birding but have been a keen photographer for quite a while. I currently use a Nikon F60 with a 28-80 D series lens & a 70-300 G series lens. I am hoping to buy my D70 this spring/summer overtime, kids & mortgage permitting!!!!!!

 

[nico]

D70 Images

Hi Blackdog

I have some D70 images in my gallery using the Sigma 50-500 lens also got some using the above plus 1.4x sigma convertor which I will add to the gallery tonight.

http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/11320

David.

 

[rezMole]

I've had my D70 for about 8 months. Started of with the cheap lens option kit, then bought a Nikkor 70-300G for about £100. Not very happy with that particular lens. Recently got a Tamron 200-500Di which is excellent, although a bit big (nearly half a metre when at 500mm and lens hood on).

Currently my gallery contains 4 pictures taken with the D70 and Tamron: -


Link to my gallery


All the pictues are cropped from 3000x2000 to 800x600 - hence that is why they seem a little grainy, and they are, of course, compressed to less than 200kb - the originals are 5MB.

I usually shoot using Nikon RAW file NEF format and edit using PhotoShop.

 

[nico]

D70 / Tamron Images

Youve got some great shots there, my favorite is the heron as the timing and exposure are perfect. :clap:

Regards

David.

 

[geoff hurley]

Thanks rezMole
I been eyeing up the tamron 200-500 instead of the sigma now you've convinced me. nice photos wish i'd been there for the heron

cheers geoff

 

[rezMole]

Cheers Geoff and nico. I'll upload more pictures when i'm allowed. Had quite a few in the gallery until the crash - when all mine disappeared!

The herons were really good that day - got several good pictures.

Just wish i'd had the Tamron when i saw a bittern just after Xmas. Got a photo, but was very disappointed with it (using Nikkor 70-300G). That was what swung it for me to move up to a better quality longer lens. Thought about the Sigma 50-500 but thought the range was a bit long, and the Tamron was getting good reviews, especially when used at f6.3 - which is what you need. I'm getting shutter speeds between 500th and 1000th, which isn't bad really - considering it's winter.

 

[Blackdog67]

I'm impressed

Thanks all, a very impressive assortment! I too am not overimpressed with the 70-300 G series lens but as I got both lenses & the F60 body for £80 on Ebay I can't really complain. As I said earlier I am hoping to upgrade in the spring, having seen all your work I can't wait.

 

[Aracari]

Hi, I have a Nikon D70 with the kit lens (18-70) and also the Sigma 170-500. You can view my gallery at www.real-amazon.com/album1.html
B

 

[johnmoonie]

I bought D70 with the 70-300mm ED lens only 3 weekends ago. Can believe the results, although I've an awful lot to learn. I've posted a few pictures, all hand held and generally in poor light. Can't wait for sunny days.

 

[rdspalm]

D70 for Digiscoping

Has anyone any experience of using the Kowa SLR attachment with a D70 or similar?

Is there a handier way of using a D70 for digiscoping?

Richard

 

[rb_stern]

Hi,

I have had my d70 and Nikkor 80-400mm. VR lens now for about 8 months, and love using them. I use this lens hand-held. I keep discovering better settings to take better pictures - e.g. I have recently started shooting Raw (.nef) format, and processing in PSE-3, and using the histogram rather than relying on what the image looks like in the LCD screen. You can look at the images I have posted in the galleries here on BirdForum for examples, or go here - http://www.pbase.com/rb_stern/current_shots&page=all, or
http://www.pbase.com/rb_stern/nm_2004&page=all, or
http://www.pbase.com/rb_stern/ivory_gull&page=all
for some recent examples. A few images in these galleries are digiscoped using my Coolpix 4500, but the exif data is there with the images.

Good shooting!

Richard

 

[JonathanRyan]

I have had a D70 for almost a year now and love it. Small, light, fast, cheap. Easily better than my D100 which cost nearly 3X the price. Haven't tried Canon's 350 yet but it would have to be pretty special to beat the 70.

 

[Tom Tarrant]

I've had a D70 and Sigma 135-400mm lens since Xmas and am pretty impressed with the results......one problem that I'm definitely having is dust on the scanner, have had it cleaned straight after purchase and again now, don't seem to be able to take off lenses without lots of crap getting into the body.

Have a look at some results on http://www.aviceda.org/nz/nz2005.htm

Tom

 

[gw4aurora]

I've had a D70 and Sigma 135-400mm lens since Xmas and am pretty impressed with the results......one problem that I'm definitely having is dust on the scanner, have had it cleaned straight after purchase and again now, don't seem to be able to take off lenses without lots of crap getting into the body.

Have a look at some results on http://www.aviceda.org/nz/nz2005.htm

Tom

Tom,
I have never had dust in mine. When not in use and carrying it around I always keep the front of the camera pointing down. This has been mentioned before in past threads. It seems to help.

Chris.

 

[weather]

Hi, I have a Nikon D70 with the kit lens (18-70) and also the Sigma 170-500. You can view my gallery at www.real-amazon.com/album1.html
B

Impressive pics! I made up my mind to purchase the D70. I hope I can get as good results as you did. Thanks so much!

Mike

 

[Brian Stepanek]

forgot to mention all shots were taken using a home made remote release cable

there are also some photo in the gallery taken using the nikon set up

cheers geoff

How did you do this on a D70. I thought it did not have that feature?