Released by Nikon in 2004, the Nikon D70 quickly became a commonly used digital single-lens reflex camera. Whether you are a professional photographer who needs a good back up camera, or an advanced amateur looking for a new camera, the D70 has something for both. With a 6.1 megapixel CCD, or Charge Coupled Device, sensor the camera offers amateur photographers a sensor that is large enough to produce photos that could easily enlarge up to 11 by 14 inches. The D70 also features three focusing modes, including a continuous servo auto-focus mode for sports or wildlife photography.
Instructions
1. Open the battery compartment located in the bottom of the molded grip and insert a fully charged battery into the Nikon D70. Slide open the memory card compartment located on the side of the molded grip and insert an empty "SD" memory card.
2. Attach a Nikon lens or a third party manufactured lens with a Nikon mount to the D70. Line up the guide dots on the outside of the lens to the guide dot on the camera mounting ring and rotate the lens counter clockwise until it clicks into place.
3. Rotate the power switch to turn the Nikon D70 on. The D70 gives you the ability to shoot in full manual mode where you control all the decisions or in full automatic mode where the camera automatically controls everything. The D70 will also let you shoot in other modes that fall in between these two extremes.
4. Turn the exposure mode dial on the top-left of the camera to "A" for "Aperture priority" mode. In this shooting mode, you turn the main dial located on the top-right back of the camera to control the lens aperture. Once you set the aperture, the camera will determine the best shutter speed to use.
5. Press the "ISO" button on left side on the back of the camera. ISO is the camera's light sensitivity setting. The higher the number, the less light the camera needs to function before the built-in flash operates. The trade-off is image quality. As ISO increases, image quality decreases. A good ISO setting for outdoors is "100" and a good setting for indoors is "400."
6. Press the "WB" button located just below the "ISO" button. This is one of the advantages of digital cameras. Light has different temperatures. Customizing the white balance to match the light in which you photograph not only improves the appearance of your pictures, it will reduce the amount of color-correction editing you will have to do in postproduction.
7. Turn the switch located on the front-right side of the camera's lens housing to "AF." This will put the camera into "Auto-focus" mode, provided you have an auto-focus lens on your camera. One hallmark of Nikon cameras is that you can use pretty much all of Nikon/Nikkor lenses on Nikon cameras.
8. Hold the camera up to your eye, and press the shutter release half way down to activate the camera's auto-focus and metering modes. Once the camera focuses and you compose the picture to your liking, press the shutter release the entire way to take the picture.
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