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Postby barry on Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:07 pm

Has anyone updated their D70 firmware to D70S firmware.

Are there any benefits in doing this.

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Postby Oneputt on Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:20 pm

I think that a lot of us have. One good thing about it is a more accurate calculation of the number of images left on your card.
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:44 pm

Barry - do it. None of us have problems that I can recall.

It improves AF, gives a cleaner look to the menus AND fixes the bug where the remaining shot count was inaccurate when shooting raw.
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Postby MATT on Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:37 pm

Do it, No probs here at all.

Even seems to have improved my 70-300G auto focus.(but I could be Imagining that)


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Postby Mal on Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:40 pm

Do it... the photo count for RAW is much more accurate now...
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Postby embi on Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:34 pm

And the sound difference .... ah pure bliss :wink:
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Postby zeb00 on Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:40 pm

do you guys mean the d70 V2.0 firmware or did you actualy instally d70s firmware?
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Postby Hudo on Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:42 pm

As others as said do it. .I did and no issues at all. Except the camera has been in for repair for close to 2 weeks now and not happy Jan :evil:
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:44 pm

zeb00 wrote:do you guys mean the d70 V2.0 firmware or did you actualy instally d70s firmware?

You install the D70 v2 firmware. This adds most of the D70s features to the D70. The D70s firmware won't work on the D70

Edit - make sure you download the version that matches your camera. If you bought the D70 here or in asia you use http://www.nikon-asia.com. if you bought it in the states you need the us version.
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Postby gstark on Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:45 pm

zeb00 wrote:do you guys mean the d70 V2.0 firmware or did you actualy instally d70s firmware?


Hopefully, the D70 V2.0 firmware. The D70S firmware isn't available for installation, to my knowledge.
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Postby ElRonno on Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:49 pm

Issues addressed with firmware version 2.0

Performance of the 5-area AF system has been improved (Dynamic area and Closest subject AF-area modes).

Changes have been made to the design of menu displays.

Page-size settings can now be applied from the camera with direct printing from a PictBridge-compatible printer.

The number of exposures remaining, displayed in the control panel and viewfinder, when shooting at an image-quality setting of NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic has been changed (the number is calculated based on the size of compressed RAW file).
Maximum number of exposures displayed when a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card is used:

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 camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. Now you cannot set the clock back to a date before 2004.12.31.

A problem that sometimes caused communication between the camera and computer to be unexpectedly terminated when using Nikon Capture Camera Control has been corrected. (Windows)

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Postby Grev on Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:51 am

embi wrote:And the sound difference .... ah pure bliss :wink:

I thought I was imagining that myself, so there is a difference in the beep... :lol:
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Postby MattC on Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:15 am

Grev wrote:I thought I was imagining that myself, so there is a difference in the beep... :lol:


Yeah, I think that there was about 3 pages dedicated to the new beep in this forum when FW v2 was released. :lol:

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Postby barry on Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:11 pm

Thanks for your input everyone.

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