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Nikon D70 dSLR or Nikon CP8800 Non dSLR (Non-CCD Cleaning!!) ??
Hi everyone,
Could anyone please help me with a difficult decision I can't seem to make? I'm stuck between the Nikon CP8800 and the Nikon D70. Here is my difficulty: The whole CCD cleaning thing is putting me off buying a dSLR. Every site you look at about cleaning the CCD, you are warned that it's difficult to do correctly, you can easily ruin your camera and, you can invalidate the warrenty. Besides, I want a camera to take pictures with, not to be regularly cleaning it! I would be grateful for your thoughts/experiences, AND opinions on the CP8800? Thank you everyone in anticipation of your help. Darrell Burnett. |
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Try www.dpreview.com, and work out what is really important to you - it
really depends on what you want to shoot. I would be a bit more concerned about the 8800's shutter lag and general slowness, than the occasional need to clean a CCD. How often will you shoot moving objects? How often will you change the lens in a dusty environment? What about noise (high in the 8800)?... etc.. |
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Try www.dpreview.com, and work out what is really important to you - it
really depends on what you want to shoot. I would be a bit more concerned about the 8800's shutter lag and general slowness, than the occasional need to clean a CCD. How often will you shoot moving objects? How often will you change the lens in a dusty environment? What about noise (high in the 8800)?... etc.. |
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The dust issue is not as bad as most folk make out. It is just a fact of
life just like dust on an old vinyl record, you take good precautions and cleaning is minimal, plenty of good products out there to assist. My D70 is 6 months old, I have changed lenses over 5o times at least in that time and I can only detect one tiny speck of dust which only shows up on a pic of say a clear blue sky or similar. Even then one can take it for a bird or somthing. I wait till I have 5 or 6 specks then i'll think about sensor cleaning. D70comes with Nikon view or Capture which has a clever program to delete dust digitaly from the sensor- it makes some kind of allowance for the dust. IMHO The advantages of the D70 system (True SLR) over a psudeo like the 8800 are immense. You will not be able to put on a 500 mm lens plus a 2x conv and get an excellent shot of a pilot 'scratching behind his ear whilst awaiting taxi instructions at an airport" for example. "leo" wrote in message k.net... wrote: Hi everyone, Could anyone please help me with a difficult decision I can't seem to make? I'm stuck between the Nikon CP8800 and the Nikon D70. Here is my difficulty: The whole CCD cleaning thing is putting me off buying a dSLR. Every site you look at about cleaning the CCD, you are warned that it's difficult to do correctly, you can easily ruin your camera and, you can invalidate the warrenty. Besides, I want a camera to take pictures with, not to be regularly cleaning it! I would be grateful for your thoughts/experiences, AND opinions on the CP8800? Thank you everyone in anticipation of your help. Darrell Burnett. I have a Canon 20D so I can't comment on the two Nikon cameras you have in mind. I love the quick response of the SLR though. There will have dust in it but you'd be hard pressed to see any trace of it shows up in normal pictures. I think a casual user only need to clean it once or twice a year. |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:48:40 GMT, wrote:
Hi everyone, Could anyone please help me with a difficult decision I can't seem to make? I'm stuck between the Nikon CP8800 and the Nikon D70. Here is my difficulty: The whole CCD cleaning thing is putting me off buying a dSLR. Every site you look at about cleaning the CCD, you are warned that it's difficult to do correctly, you can easily ruin your camera and, you can invalidate the warrenty. Besides, I want a camera to take pictures with, not to be regularly cleaning it! I would be grateful for your thoughts/experiences, AND opinions on the CP8800? Thank you everyone in anticipation of your help. Darrell Burnett. My experience below. Not necessarily the "right" way of doing things, nor the right answer for everyone, but just "for information": When I started looking for a decent digital camera, I originally started looking at the 8700 (initially for no other reason than I saw a second- hand one in a window -- at that time, I hadn't done any research). As I dug into things, I got to the stage of trying to decide between the 8700 and the 8800 (I liked what the 8800 offered, but it cost more etc.). I was on the verge of getting one or the other a couple of times, but never got to the "commit" stage. Initially, I had not so much "rejected" a dSLR, as never really considered one -- I wasn't a converting-SLR-film-user, and although I knew the basics, "playing with lenses and all that hassle" was "too much bother" for what I wanted. However, as I put off deciding between the 8700/8800 for longer, I saw more and more info/advice/dogmatism that led me to begin to consider a dSLR (and specifically the D70). At first this was "if only..."; but as I read more of the differences between the top-end (or, at least, 8MP) p&s cameras and bottom-end (6MP) dSLRs, the D70 became more and more attractive. In the end, I went for the D70 for a number of reasons, at least a couple of which are I hope legitimate: (a) Especially in difficult conditions, six million dSLR pixels should give better photos than eight million p&s ones; (b) Although it's not a situation that will crop up that often, I'd recently been to a Formula 1 training day at Silverstone, and couldn't get the shots I wanted with a compact film zoom camera nor an old/cheap digital p&s. While the D70 body isn't "professional sports standard", better shutter-lag, shot-speed and buffer-speed, plus not having an EVF that blanks between shots should be of benefit if I am ever in a similar situation. (c) The general "expandability" of a dSLR... while I wanted to be able to take good photographs, I'm certainly not a "keen amateur", nor really is photography a "major hobby". As such, whatever I chose would likely be my main camera for several years to come. While I probably won't push against all the limits, I felt my options would be limited less with the D70. (d) While sometimes useful/fun, I didn't/don't see the lack of live preview nor the ability to take video clips as a major drawback. (e) If I'm honest, it appealed to the "techno-head" in me a bit... (f) Although I hadn't intended to spend what the D70 cost, I _could_ afford it (and didn't have to justify the extra to anyone). (g) I'd seen references to dust, but decided that _in_the_main_ it was one of those issues where you get the most noise (as in postings to usenet/the web) from people for whom it has become an obsession, and that for the (nearly) silent majority, it wasn't too big a problem. Did I make the right decision (for me)? I think so. I'm very happy with my D70. I probably don't yet _need_ all the D70 has to offer, but it's there if I do, and I think I'm less likely to think "if only my camera could..." than with the 8700/8800. If I _did_ have to make the choice again, I'd probably not make it between a 6MP dSLR and an 8MP p&s, as I don't think the extra 2 million p&s pixels are probably worth it for the price difference. Instead, I'd probably look for a good 4/5MP p&s. There's less compromise from packing so many pixels into a small sensor, more portability and a greater price differential. HTH Regards, Graham Holden (g-holden AT dircon DOT co DOT uk) -- There are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that don't. |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:48:40 GMT, wrote:
Hi everyone, Could anyone please help me with a difficult decision I can't seem to make? I'm stuck between the Nikon CP8800 and the Nikon D70. Here is my difficulty: The whole CCD cleaning thing is putting me off buying a dSLR. Every site you look at about cleaning the CCD, you are warned that it's difficult to do correctly, you can easily ruin your camera and, you can invalidate the warrenty. Besides, I want a camera to take pictures with, not to be regularly cleaning it! I would be grateful for your thoughts/experiences, AND opinions on the CP8800? Thank you everyone in anticipation of your help. Darrell Burnett. My experience below. Not necessarily the "right" way of doing things, nor the right answer for everyone, but just "for information": When I started looking for a decent digital camera, I originally started looking at the 8700 (initially for no other reason than I saw a second- hand one in a window -- at that time, I hadn't done any research). As I dug into things, I got to the stage of trying to decide between the 8700 and the 8800 (I liked what the 8800 offered, but it cost more etc.). I was on the verge of getting one or the other a couple of times, but never got to the "commit" stage. Initially, I had not so much "rejected" a dSLR, as never really considered one -- I wasn't a converting-SLR-film-user, and although I knew the basics, "playing with lenses and all that hassle" was "too much bother" for what I wanted. However, as I put off deciding between the 8700/8800 for longer, I saw more and more info/advice/dogmatism that led me to begin to consider a dSLR (and specifically the D70). At first this was "if only..."; but as I read more of the differences between the top-end (or, at least, 8MP) p&s cameras and bottom-end (6MP) dSLRs, the D70 became more and more attractive. In the end, I went for the D70 for a number of reasons, at least a couple of which are I hope legitimate: (a) Especially in difficult conditions, six million dSLR pixels should give better photos than eight million p&s ones; (b) Although it's not a situation that will crop up that often, I'd recently been to a Formula 1 training day at Silverstone, and couldn't get the shots I wanted with a compact film zoom camera nor an old/cheap digital p&s. While the D70 body isn't "professional sports standard", better shutter-lag, shot-speed and buffer-speed, plus not having an EVF that blanks between shots should be of benefit if I am ever in a similar situation. (c) The general "expandability" of a dSLR... while I wanted to be able to take good photographs, I'm certainly not a "keen amateur", nor really is photography a "major hobby". As such, whatever I chose would likely be my main camera for several years to come. While I probably won't push against all the limits, I felt my options would be limited less with the D70. (d) While sometimes useful/fun, I didn't/don't see the lack of live preview nor the ability to take video clips as a major drawback. (e) If I'm honest, it appealed to the "techno-head" in me a bit... (f) Although I hadn't intended to spend what the D70 cost, I _could_ afford it (and didn't have to justify the extra to anyone). (g) I'd seen references to dust, but decided that _in_the_main_ it was one of those issues where you get the most noise (as in postings to usenet/the web) from people for whom it has become an obsession, and that for the (nearly) silent majority, it wasn't too big a problem. Did I make the right decision (for me)? I think so. I'm very happy with my D70. I probably don't yet _need_ all the D70 has to offer, but it's there if I do, and I think I'm less likely to think "if only my camera could..." than with the 8700/8800. If I _did_ have to make the choice again, I'd probably not make it between a 6MP dSLR and an 8MP p&s, as I don't think the extra 2 million p&s pixels are probably worth it for the price difference. Instead, I'd probably look for a good 4/5MP p&s. There's less compromise from packing so many pixels into a small sensor, more portability and a greater price differential. HTH Regards, Graham Holden (g-holden AT dircon DOT co DOT uk) -- There are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that don't. |
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(d) While sometimes useful/fun, I didn't/don't see the lack of live preview nor the ability to take video clips as a major drawback. Sorry for sounding stupid, I have never owned a DSLR, so what exactly is Live Preview? Is it the ability to freeze the photo for 3-5 seconds like my Powershot G1 to see if the photo is well taken? Or is it the button to review Photographs? Or is when you switch settings like White Balance, Spot metering, the LCD instantly shows what it would look like "live" even b4 you press the shutter? Thanks CJ |
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As others said, the dust isn't a big issue. It's only visible in very
high f/stop number shots. Lots of good solutions for doing it yourself once a year or so. The biggest issues are size, complexity, cost of necessary lenses and the lack of live LCD preview. Consider that you will want to have a collection of expensive lenses to get full performance. The kit lens has nice wide angle but very little telephoto & not spectacular macro, no image stabilization, not a particularly fast (low f number) lens, etc. I miss the live preview. In general the D70 is more demanding to operate. It does have auto settings but you will want to learn all the controls & shoot in raw and get sucked up into a pretty darn geeky technical hobby. That's a lot different from point & shoot. Not only is the body bigger & heavier but when you start craving more lenses, the nice ones can be HUGE. Are you willing to get into all that? |
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Chin Jin Phua wrote:
(d) While sometimes useful/fun, I didn't/don't see the lack of live preview nor the ability to take video clips as a major drawback. Sorry for sounding stupid, I have never owned a DSLR, so what exactly is Live Preview? Is it the ability to freeze the photo for 3-5 seconds like my Powershot G1 to see if the photo is well taken? Or is it the button to review Photographs? Or is when you switch settings like White Balance, Spot metering, the LCD instantly shows what it would look like "live" even b4 you press the shutter? With DSLR's you have to hold the camera to your eye and don't see the image until after it's been shot. I used to love the live preview on the LCD of my P&S. So easy to see the exposure & composition as I move things around. But the DSLR viewfinder is easier to see detail, I used to miss little things that couldn't be seen in the LCD like a piece of trash in the corner. |
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