Nikon D70 is a truly excellent six-megapixel digital SLR with a full set of advanced features for novices as well as for serious and experienced photo enthusiasts.
It delivers a combination of innovative features, robust performance, excellent image quality and a compatibility with Nikon’s DX Nikkor lenses. The D70 incorporates a DX format 6.1-effective megapixel CCD sensor delivering images with excellent sharpness and clarity, and a new advanced system Large Scale Integrated Circuit (LSI) processor ensures images with vivid color, accurate white balance and minimized noise.
The D70 offers a choice of seven Digital Vari-Program modes such as 
Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Close Up, Sport, Night Landscape and Night Portrait. It also includes four more Exposure Modes, offering more control over the camera settings. These Exposure Modes are Auto Multi Program (P), leaving camera to optimize exposure to suit subject with user control over shutter speed and aperture, Shutter Priority Auto (S) offering user to choose fast shutter speeds to freeze action or slow shutter speeds to suggest motion by blurring moving objects, Aperture Priority Auto (A), offering user to adjust aperture to soften background details, or increase depth of fi eld to bring both the main subject and the background into focus and Manual (M) leaving user with full control over the aperture and shutter speed control.
The Digital Vari-Program modes produce great results with smooth gradations and rich tones even in the most complex shooting conditions. Nikon’s new Dynamic Buffer technology allows the D70 to capture three pictures per second. Additional features such as simultaneous compressed NEF (RAW) and JPEG writing capabilities, and new i-TTL flash compatibility with sync speed of 1/500 second puts the D70 on top within its class.
The menus have been designed to offer quick access to the most often used features. User have a choice of customizing their menu to display simple or advanced options depending on their skill level. A unique help button on the camera temporarily displays a short description for each of the 25 different custom settings featured in the D70.
The built-in speedlight designed to be a part of Nikon’s growing Creative Lighting System, the D70′s built-in speedlight adopts Nikon’s exclusive i-TTL flash control technology. The speedlight automatically pops up and fires when natural lighting is inadequate or to add balanced Fill-Flash when there is strong backlighting. In addition, i-TTL technology improves the accuracy of fill-flash exposure and white balance in a picture, by seamlessly integrating color information gathered from the speedlight’s monitor pre-flash with information from the camera’s 1,005-pixel RGB sensor. The built-in speedlight can also be used in Commander Mode to remotely control a group of multiple wireless SB-600 and/or SB-800 Speedlights.
Nikon D70 features:
- Single-lens refl ex digital camera with interchangeable lenses
- 6.1-Megapixel CCD sensor (up to 3008 x 2000 pixel images)
- Nikon F-mount lenses (with AF coupling and AF contacts)
- Exclusive Nikon 3D-Color Matrix metering
- Autofocus (AF): Instant single-servo AF (AF-S); continuous servo AF (AF-C); predictive focus tracking automatically
activated according to subject status, Manual (M). - 5 focusing areas with Single-area AF, dynamic-area AF, dynamic-area AF with closest subject priority
- Auto (TTL white-balance with 1,005 pixels RGB sensor), six manual modes with fine-tuning, preset white balance
- Combined mechanical and CCD electronic shutter (1/8,000 to 30 seconds)
- ISO 200 – 1600 (in steps of 1/ 3 EV)
- TTL flash control by 1,005-pixel RGB sensor
- Continuous drive at 3 frames per second with dynamic buffer
- Instant return with depth-of-fi eld preview
- Digital Vari-Program, Programs
- Noise Reduction circuitry for long exposures
- Compressed RAW and JPEG formats in three quality levels and sizes
- Three color spaces (two sRGB and Adobe sRGB)
- 1.8-inch color LCD with 118,000 pixels and white LED backlight
- Onscreen menu for Playback, Shooting, Custom functions and Setup
- Review with zoomed-playback & pan, histogram and highlights
- CompactFlash I and II, Microdrive memory cards
- NTSC or PAL video playback format
- USB data and control interface
- High capacity EN-EL3 Battery Pack and MH-18 charger