Nikon D70 Firmware
Discussion
Nikon site said:
Issues addressed firmware version 2.00
-Improved performance for the 5-area autofocus system's Dynamic Area AF and Closest Subject Priority Dynamic Area AF modes.
- Updated menus with a new design similar to that of the D70s, making them easier to view and quicker to recognise.
- Page size and setup support for PictBridge compatible printers has been added to the camera menu.
- The display for number of exposures remaining when using NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic image-quality settings has been changed. The number is now calculated based on the average size of a compressed RAW file, instead of the maximum file size.
- Maximum number of exposures displayed using a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card:
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 the camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. The clock can not be set to a date before 2004.12.31.
- Correction of a problem that occasionally caused communication between Nikon Capture Camera Control and the D70 to be unexpectedly terminated (Windows).
Just done mine. Display now shows that 161 shots will fit on my card instead of 88 - that's more like it!
Menus look prettier but I can't see a difference - whether the AF-C stuff is better remains to be seen, I'm sure it is though.
lake said:
Has anyone tried opening a version 2.00 NEF file in photoshop CS's raw reader/plugin yet? Just interested to know if that still all works OK as I dont use Nikon Capture, and there was been talk of new file formats recently in Nikon circles.
Thanks in advance.
Ian
Oh christ I hope it hasn't changed, or I will be livid! Saying that it wont be long till adobe issue a new plugin if it has changed.
Well I don't know what to do.
If focus tracking is improved I want it, but I don't want to find I have a problem (that I wouldn't otherwise have had) with Raw files as I use RSE. Perhaps I should wait for an RSE "guinea pig" to come along?
From what I've read there's a split between "cor that really rocks" to "I can't see any significant difference" in response to the new menu look.
And I can live with the uncompressed remaining file estimate.
If focus tracking is improved I want it, but I don't want to find I have a problem (that I wouldn't otherwise have had) with Raw files as I use RSE. Perhaps I should wait for an RSE "guinea pig" to come along?
From what I've read there's a split between "cor that really rocks" to "I can't see any significant difference" in response to the new menu look.
And I can live with the uncompressed remaining file estimate.
No problem either performing the upgrade (just RTFM) and with camera performance and NEF files since.
The only issue has been that I've ended up playing around with the focus settings. I can't detect it being anybetter with "manual drive" lenses. In fact I'm baffled by how closest focus is actually supposed to work..... but that's another story.....I've turned it back to dynamic for now.
The only issue has been that I've ended up playing around with the focus settings. I can't detect it being anybetter with "manual drive" lenses. In fact I'm baffled by how closest focus is actually supposed to work..... but that's another story.....I've turned it back to dynamic for now.
'Closest focus' is not 'focus tracking'. The former simply means the camera focuses on whatever happens to be closest, which sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. By contrast, Focus tracking is AF-C or Continuous Servo and means the focus will track with the subject as you keep the shutter half depressed.
I'm with you there, in theory, John.
It's just that I tried that setting out for the first time the other day and it consistently focussed BEHIND the Heron (180mm lens, non-D spec though (), usually about three focus zones on the bird) being somewhat persistant on wanting to focus on the stones in the river. Could be that they were more easily definable than the birds plumage, markings, beak and eye, I suppose.
Bit puzzled that I found this a problem, but ... hey ho ... it's not life threatening so I am back to my usual of dynamic on AF-C....
It's just that I tried that setting out for the first time the other day and it consistently focussed BEHIND the Heron (180mm lens, non-D spec though (
), usually about three focus zones on the bird) being somewhat persistant on wanting to focus on the stones in the river. Could be that they were more easily definable than the birds plumage, markings, beak and eye, I suppose. Bit puzzled that I found this a problem, but ... hey ho ... it's not life threatening so I am back to my usual of dynamic on AF-C....
simpo two said:
'Closest focus' is not 'focus tracking'. The former simply means the camera focuses on whatever happens to be closest, which sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. By contrast, Focus tracking is AF-C or Continuous Servo and means the focus will track with the subject as you keep the shutter half depressed.
N***n playing 'catch-up' again!
Martin.
Eh? What's that? 
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