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SOLD : Nikon D70 kit for sale.
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Hi Everyone
I?m selling my Nikon D70 and a few bits and pieces. The camera is about 2 years old but is in excellent condition. Care was always taken changing lenses, etc, and the sensor has never been cleaned nor needed it. It comes complete with original boxes and manuals. The full list of bits and pieces are:
– Nikon D70 body (inc body cap, batteries and charger)
– Nikon 28-80mm kit lens
– 3 Compact Flash cards (256 MB, 512MB and 1 GB)
– Camera Bag (approx 15in x 12in x 5in)
– Tripod (came with camera bag and fits into bag)The camera bag and tripod were rarely used. (The tripod is, admittedly, a cheap, lightweight structure, and not too much value is being attached to it.)
I’m hoping for offers around STG 400 for the lot, and the set will not be split or items offered separately. I?ll leave it here for about a week and then advertise it on ebay if there are no serious offers. Can deliver/meet buyer around Dublin or Co Armagh.
Please PM me anytime if you are interested.
…one other thing I forgot… there’ll be a Thom Hogan Nikon D70 manual thrown in as well.
Are we allowed ask what new camera you bought instead? Sorry I’m nosey :oops:
ciaran wrote:
Are we allowed ask what new camera you bought instead? Sorry I’m nosey :oops:
Probably a Canon! :twisted:
Sorry – couldn’t resist. Been a few shitty day at work and I just felt like some childish humour!Ciaran
I’m just making the small upgrade to a D80 – mainly because I want to generate 50MB TIFF files without interpolation. Currently I don’t expect to keep the D80 long. I still have a eye open for a D3x, but as it didn’t appear at Photokina I expect that it could still be more than a year away. So I decided the D80 upgrade would help me bide my time! As a side issue, I’m trying to buy a Nikon F4 or F5 as well, but that has nothing to do with selling my D70.
Thorsten
I know you were only joking, but it started me thinking. The situation is a bit like cars – Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar, Audi, etc are all good cars. Anybody who has one of them probably enjoys their motoring and gets good service from it. A lot boils down to taste. And in that respect, strangely, I couldn’t be more indifferent to Mercedes. They’re great cars, and I don’t despise them at all, but I’m almost certain that I’ll never buy one. Cameras are a bit like that too. There are various good cameras around that will give good service and the results boil down to the photographer’s skill in the end. But, like Mercedes, I could hardly be more indifferent to Canon cameras. They’re certainly great cameras but I couldn’t tell anything about a single model without having to look it up on the internet. Whereas my Nikon D70 served me well and my interest has grown to the point that I could tell a little about all the main models since the 1960’s. I’m likely to remain a Nikon user as long as I do photography.
There’s a great old Swiss saying “Geschmack laesst sich nicht streiten”, which basically means that “Taste doesn’t argue” or, as we’d say it in English, “You can’t argue about taste”. I’ve thought more and more about that old saying since I got more involved in photography.
Bertie, good luck with the new camera.
If you are very keen on the F4 I’d urge you to try one out first, I had one and it was extremely heavy. Mine was the F4s version with the intgrated battery pack.
If I had Nikon glass in my bag, I’d have a F100 http://www.bythom.com/F100.htm
Fintan
Good luck with the D80, Nigel. They are a good machine. Having read the reviews the only fault I could find is the lack of a CF Flash slot……which is not really a fault at all.
Now this is something that is bothering me !…………………read some time early in the year that the new D200 was almost a D2X with some extra features. Next thing I read the new D80 is almost a D200 just packaged smaller. Now the big question I’m having is …….LOL……Do you now own an “almost” D2X packaged within a D80…??????????
I know…..I know……this is what happens when the wedding taking season goes quiet and lads have an odd Saturday off……..it gives them too much time to think.
Anyway, Nigel, the best of luck with your D80 and wheather its a D2X, D200 or whatever “is under the hood” I know you’ll make great use of it.
GCP wrote:
Now this is something that is bothering me !…………………read some time early in the year that the new D200 was almost a D2X with some extra features. Next thing I read the new D80 is almost a D200 just packaged smaller. Now the big question I’m having is …….LOL……Do you now own an “almost” D2X packaged within a D80…??????
The D70 had better image quality ultimately than the D100 or the D1 series, (except for the moire) thus it goes! The only differentiating factor for those who have the finanace to choose either the D2x, D200 or D80 is the build quality and having functions at your fingertips (and some bells and whistles), the image quality will be much the same though the D80 has better high ISO performance than either the other two, nearly as good as the D50. Not sure if the D80 meters with manual lenses though which could rule it out for some with a shed full of classic lenses.
The D200 killed the D2x for me, as it has the wireless flash commander built in to the on-board flash and with no other equipment other than a couple of SB800’s or 600’s you could set up TTL metering for the on-board and any external flashes with compenasation for each unit. Nikons flash system is still the best in the business :)
The new Pentax K10D may well cause major waves when it hits the streets though, on paper there’s nothing to beat it in this price range.
Nigel I have a Nikon F90X and I think it is a wonderful film camera. Very nice to handle, good metering and probably not as heavy a the F4. It would be worth considering.
John
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