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    Successful D70 sensor cleaning (open heart surgery) .. big thanks... want to share my experience...

    in Nikon

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    I do not have a direct question per se I want to share my experience and say

    thanks. Also, please review my approach and offer any advice you may have in

    the future.

     

    First thanks to everyone who gave me pearls of wisdom and the confidence to

    finally clean my sensor.

     

    I had a wicked-bad-huge chunk on my sensor from a trip to Kilauea volcano and

    the volcano fields of Hawaii.

     

    I ended up using the following and got the low pass filter on my sensor as

    clean as the day it rolled out of the factory...

     

    - PSI Sensor Swabs (got 3 from a friend)

     

    - PSI Eclipse methonal solution (bought my own $$$$)

     

    - Giottos Rocket blaster (bought my own $10)

     

    - Artic Butterfly 724 (Paid $90 us at Adorama)

     

    I used all of them per directions. Now the low pass filter over my sensor is

    clean as a whistle! An F/29 photo on a white wall shows no spots.

     

    After intensive research next cleaning will be with the "Copperhill" method

    and I would probably buy the Copperhill sensor brush.

     

    Although while the Artic Butterfly is expensive it is an excellent brush. It

    seems to me that you really do need a brush and swabs.

     

    Thanks....

    Who wants primes?

    in Nikon

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    I love primes. I consistently get the best quality out the prime lenses.....The Nikon 50mm f/1.8 is an excellent lens. The Bokeh is a little harsh below 2.2-2.5 range but it is simply an excellent lens.

     

    The best part of primes are you can get excellent quality out of moderate to low price lenses because of the hot demand for zooms.

     

    Granted zooms offer great range (I would not trade my 70-300 for anything) but when it comes to low light or situations where a flash would be inappropriate you simply cannot beat the 50mm 1.8.

     

    So to answer your question of Who wants primes?.... I want primes!

    D70 BGLOD

    in Nikon

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    Here are the biggest differences. (taken from the nikon website)

     

    What is new in Version 2.0:

     

    Performance of the 5-area AF system has been improved (Dynamic area and Closest subject AF-area modes).

     

     

    Changes have been made to the design of menu displays.

     

     

    Page-size settings can now be applied from the camera with direct printing from a PictBridge-compatible printer.

     

     

    The number of exposures remaining, displayed in the control panel and viewfinder, when shooting at an image-quality setting of NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic has been changed (the number is calculated based on the size of compressed RAW file). Maximum number of exposures displayed when a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card is used: Version 2.00: NEF (RAW): approx. 44 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 39 exposures Version 1.03 or earlier: NEF (RAW): approx. 23 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 21 exposures

     

     

    The default setting for camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. Now you cannot set the clock back to a date before 2004.12.31.

     

     

    A problem that sometimes caused communication between the camera and computer to be unexpectedly terminated when using Nikon Capture Camera Control has been corrected. (Windows)

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