In high school I did a lot of photography (had a simple SLR, simple darkroom, lots of time..) - but I graduated in 1978. Over time I devolved to using just point and shoot cameras (first film, then digital) and was never satisfied with the results. The D70 is the first camera I've had since high school that I can *play* with. It's _fun_.
First - you can take lots of pictures very fast with low latency. Second - there isn't (until you fill up the buffer - maybe 10 pictures) any lag when taking the pictures. Third - the default zoom lens that comes with the camera is very useful. Fourth - while it's a very powerful camera the default settings work pretty well.
I'm spending a lot more time thinking about what picture I want to take and experimenting with ideas on what might or might not work. When things don't work I usually can see why and I have new ideas on what to try next. So - it's an excellent tool & self-teaching device.
Today's mission - a pond near my daughter's daycare has geese and yesterday 7 goslings hatched (my daughter claims that the mother's name is "Candy Hot & Sour Soup" and the father's name is "Tree Branch") and we'll take some family pictures. I need practice taking bird pictures and these are 'sitting ducks'. :-)
On 5/2/06, Pavithra Sankaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - I had an occasional image quality problem that I
> didn't understand - a black shadow
...
>you took the hood off - no problem.
I should add (to my earlier post about the D70) that
if you use a wide angle lens (including the standard
18-70 lens available with the D70 body), you should
get appropriate filters for it. Else, you are likely
to (read definitely will) see vignetting along the
edges of the image.
P.
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