Nikon D70 Good Camera Good Price Second Hand?
 

What do members think of the D70 in general?
I've got an opportunity of buying a mint one with 18 70 lens, and full kit etc
Price circa £300

Main use will be for internal & external high quality car shots.


Panasonic have a TZ3 out (different kettle of fish I know but this has rave reviews)
£circa £160

Your advice is always appreciated

Really depends what you want Jules and if you already have or will need other lenses to.
The D70 was a Brilliant camera when it came out 3 Years ago, but by recent releases is not up to current quality.
It has only 6.1 Mega-Pixel and I take it the Price isn't 3300? as above.
At £300 it isn't to bad and what they are going for at the Moment with that Lens.

Sidetracking, I have got to have the Lounge Extended Dodo says, Why?
Just because I bought a Nikon D2XS Camera (Hope she doesn't find the Lenses, she will be like a 1.8 R75, blowing her Head Gasket big time).
She reckons I have more cameras now than Shirts to wear, Keep telling her 4 of them are old 35mm SLR's. Women.
Hardly seems fair I'm sure it will cost more than the camera stuff. :D

£300 it was

And I've spelt Nikon wrong but we cannot edit thread titles

Need a Vacation:getmecoat:

Consider it Done Jules. :D

Nothing wrong with that imho. as you know, on DSLR's it's not about pixels, its all down to optics.

But then I would say that, as my D40 "only" has 6.1Mp :D I have yet to find any difference between pictures taken on it, and my mates new D40X (with 10Mp) :shrug: maybe the difference will show with more expensive lenses or huge prints, but for now I can't see any.

Unless you are in the Habit of 30" x 40" Prints or are after the very Largest A Sizes then I quite agree with you. Optics are far more Important.
I was trying to point out that current models Whilst offering more, for what was the same price.
I still do shoot a lot of transparencies on 35MM and 6 x 6 and 5" x 4" format cameras, and still prefer them to Digital regardless of what it is fitted with. :D

As others have pointed out, 6.1MP is plenty for average-size prints. My wife had a D70 for a while, and we were both very happy with it and the 18-70mm DX lens.

£300 for the outfit sounds like a good deal if it is in good condition; the going rate at respected Nikon dealers like Grays of Westminster for a D70 body only is somewhere around that figure.

After further research I decided against the D70 as it doesn't have image stabilisation, which I need out side especially in the winter months lighting.

I only need 1200 X 860 image size too, for web pages mainly.
But I still want highest quality possible within these parameters.
Oh I also need an ISO range to at least 1200.

The Panasonic TZ3 still fits all the above criterea, but obviously its a compact . Just wondering if the optics are good enough for my needs.
A friend is buying one anyway so we'll see what the results are.

Thanks for advice so far:)

eh?

Nikon does not use IS, it uses VR (Vibration reduction) and the technology is in the LENS not the camera.

Cheers BMC
This is why I started the thread as I know sweet ***** Adams about cameras

Looked at 3 different ads and D70 reviews and none mentioned IS or VR
so I assumed neither the cameras or lenses they were being sold with had VR!!

I will be wiser when the next outfit comes on eBay.
Just bought a New Panasonic TZ3 on eBay for £150 + FREE 2 GB card to play with.
Same outfit in my local shop was £279 without the 2GB!!!!

I would still like an SLR too, now tempted by the Nikon D200
Second hand ones going for £500