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Goodbye D70

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:30 pm
by Justin
You've served me well - the photo courses, the trip to china, europe. My photography has improved 1000% while you have been with me, and I still would not claim to know 2% of your potential - I've never bracketed you, with either exposure or white balance. I still do not know what I do not know about you! Imagine what Henri-Cartier or Ansell Adams could have created with your assistance. I only recently took your advice to be more hands-on and the brave plunge into fully manual exposures, a scary challenge. But you ensured that I didn't give up but came back and kept enjoying this strange art of capturing moments in time. I didn't always agree with you, sometimes you are moody and a bit darker or lighter than what I see, but I have borne your moods and you have rewarded me well. You've never let me down and you've never complained about the rough treatement

But now I am ready for a new curve, so some lucky soul will now experience the highs and lows of DSLR photography and I hope to guide them on this road with what I have learnt about you and what some of your possibilities are.

Thanks D70.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:33 pm
by Yi-P
What happened to it??? :shock: :shock:

New D2Xs to come?? :lol: :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:38 pm
by Justin
Sold, saw a better model so it's yesterdays camera :wink:

No, I have sold to a good friend, have a D200 on order, I have to give him the D70 tomorrow, so I am having a sad, quiet moment packing up the D70 which I wanted to share.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:47 pm
by phillipb
Well, at least your old D70 can't accuse you of being a 2-timer. :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:05 pm
by elffinarts
unlike a wife, a D70 never complains that you spend a lot of time with another camera. :lol:

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:05 am
by 99
Watch it elffinarts! :evil: Be careful there.

Justin, I too am aiming towards a D200. I envy you.

99

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:16 am
by Justin
ahh but I am sure she will be a harsh mistress...

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:18 am
by 99
Half your luck then :roll: :roll:

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:44 am
by obzelite
Justin wrote:Sold, saw a better model so it's yesterdays camera :wink:

No, I have sold to a good friend, have a D200 on order, I have to give him the D70 tomorrow, so I am having a sad, quiet moment packing up the D70 which I wanted to share.


you put your faith in maxwells or birdy? could be a boring few months if its maxwell stock :)

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:21 am
by Justin
Faith in Birdy, absolutely. I am going to be without a camera from today!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:53 pm
by Justin
It's gone.. and will spend a while in full-auto I expect... sigh... :(

PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:48 pm
by elffinarts
99 wrote:Watch it elffinarts! :evil: Be careful there.

funnily enough that joke was blurted at me by my wife :wink: