Nikon D70 vs. 300D

"Don Farias" wrote in message
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"Gisle Hannemyr" wrote in message
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D70 weaknesses:
still marginal auto WB under indancescents
fringing? (1)
no mirror lock up
no vertical grip
pentamirror
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I assumed from your OP that you were looking for pro/con differences so I
don't understand Gisele's D70 negative comments. As far as I know the
300D
doesn't have mirror lock .

It does with the Russian firmware.

Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
"Dave1" writes:
300D = Polycarbonate body on metal frame
D70 = ALL Polycarbonate
I wonder which one really is the stronger body?
I think you are confusing the 300D with the 10D.
AFAIK, there is no metal frame in the 300D - it is all polycarbonate.

Yes.


Juergen

No, I'm not confusing the 300D with anything, the 300D really does have
a metal sub-assembly (which the D70 doesn't). From Canon's own website:
"The EOS 300D DIGITAL is the smallest and lightest (560g) digital
camera and is extre-mely easy to handle. It's rigid chassis combines
engineering plastic with stainless steel and is covered by strong,
lightweight plastic."

TBH last time I looked STAINLESS STEEL was most definitely a form of
metal ;-)

To read the entire article (it's on Canon Japan's site), at
http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/eosdigital/index.html

click "YES" and then "Get the Inside Story" and then "Compact and light
body" tabs. My quoted section is in the first paragraph.

Practical Photography did a comparison test, image wise the 300D was
said produce the superior image (not by much, but still slightly
superior), general concensus appears to be that ISO noise, and colour
reproduction are better on the Canon.

Dave

Steve Wolfe wrote:

I apologize in advance, I imagine this has been hashed out quite a bit.
Searching through groups.google, however, didn't really seem to turn up as
much useful material as I would have hoped for.


D70 strengths:
faster continous shooting
true RAW+JPEG
slightly larger color gamut

Maybe, but I doubt very much that this is a problem for RAW capture.
In any case, the gamut of these cameras is far larger than anything
that can be displayed, so I suspect it's not really a consideration.

slightly lower field-of-view crop (1.5 vs 1.6)
sharper, at the expense of moire

Yeah, that's the tradeoff. Plenty of people have noticed this.

Andrew.