D70 / vertical grip

[yymun]

Hi I'm new and like to find out does D70 support vertical Grip

[Gosu_John]

nope it doesn't unfortunately though.

[Clown]

ditto.........

[yymun]

Thanks for the info! Cheers

[WeddingPhotographer]

Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video?
I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

[Clown]

Originally Posted by WeddingPhotographer Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video? I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

can! alamak... u never see the button meh? it's the hole under the camera. u need to poke ur finger in there and it'll start recording video. but u must first remember to insert video tape hor..

[RiStaR]

Originally Posted by WeddingPhotographer Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video? I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

diff kind of sensor... Full-frame transfer versus interline sensors

[Witness]

haha...

one reason is coz its an SLR..... its made to take photos...not videos...

[biratan81]

it can use almost all the nikon mount lenses, can the normal cheap digi cam do that?

we are talking about different things, how to compare like that leh?

it is same to say that a same price of vid cam and digi cam, how come the vid cam can take very long duration video but digi cam can only take limited minute of video...why? because different thing...cannot compare directly.

[r32]

Seems like Nikon's plan to "differentiate" the D70 from the D100 (by not offering a vertical grip) backfired. The 3rd party manufacturers weren't sitting around doing nothing and came out with a D70 grip for all those D70s out there......

http://www.hkjenis.com/English/Esbxl3.html <- I think this is available now.

http://www.harbortronics.com/news.htm <- and these guys are developing theirs.

[Jer]

Originally Posted by r32 Seems like Nikon's plan to "differentiate" the D70 from the D100 (by not offering a vertical grip) backfired. The 3rd party manufacturers weren't sitting around doing nothing and came out with a D70 grip for all those D70s out there...... http://www.hkjenis.com/English/Esbxl3.html <- I think this is available now.

Again they never state the price and details??

[Del_CtrlnoAlt]

Originally Posted by WeddingPhotographer Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video? I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

i kinda wonder if this is a joke...

anyway the site looks good, any idea where to get the stuff?

wanted this few items...

http://www.hkjenis.com/company/lcdhood/S4.htm

http://www.hkjenis.com/English/Ecpukmx.html

btw... the factory's pic look kinda fake, the signboard like use PS to add in 1...

[sammy888]

Originally Posted by r32 Seems like Nikon's plan to "differentiate" the D70 from the D100 (by not offering a vertical grip) backfired. The 3rd party manufacturers weren't sitting around doing nothing and came out with a D70 grip for all those D70s out there...... http://www.hkjenis.com/English/Esbxl3.html <- I think this is available now. http://www.harbortronics.com/news.htm <- and these guys are developing theirs.

HI..

Looking at the sample model at Jenis... Does that mean you have to some how remove the battery lid in order to push the vertical battery piece inside? I don't see how that is possible without have to dismantle the bottom plate of the D70 first to some how remove the pivot pin that holds the battery lid in place. I don't see how it can be remove without some dismantling. The lid does not have one of those push knob like a watch strap or like the film SLR lid that opens up to the film chamber. And dismantling it will it not void your warranty.

I would love to have a vertical grip but at what expense and damages to the camera. Plus...how are they going to trigger it. Your the other site link makes more sense in that respect. I doubt the push-up vertical battery contact on the Jenis model is about to find a triggering contact inside the D70 battery chamber. So you have to somehow develope a wire extension that comes out from the vertical grip with a IR device head at the end of it which you will need to place at the D70's IR detector over the other side of the camera. It will have to be place over it or some how directly infront of it to ensure a positive and never fail triggering situation. And there is also abit of lag in using the remote when I used mine. Other then that..the one thing you could use to trigger it would be the shutter button. Unless there is some other physical hacking to be done to the D70's internal "organs" heheh.. if so..that mean this is not a buy off the counter product but have to be something you send in for modifucation. Tampering with those internal parts scares me! heh.. bye bye warranty. Don't flame me hor....hehe ..I am just playing devil advocate here.

Could this possibly be vaporware just like a certain site did with their bogus D2X report months before the D2X was actually launched... hehehe...

[justarius]

Originally Posted by WeddingPhotographer Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video? I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

If you really want to take videos, go get a video camera. Can't beat the quality.

Anyway, if you care to examine your D70 carefully and read up abit on how a SLR type camera operates, you know that the mirror gets in the way. If you want to take video using an SLR, then you wouldn't be able to see the video image at all, cos the mirror up and preventing the image from reaching the viewfinder. If you do away with the mirror, than the resulting camera, by definition, is not an SLR.

[Zerstorer]

Originally Posted by RiStaR diff kind of sensor... Full-frame transfer versus interline sensors

That's not the reason. FYI the D70 uses an interline transfer CCD.

[raid]

Originally Posted by WeddingPhotographer Most digi cam that cost above $300 can record video, can D70 record video? I think it can't as I can't find it after playing with it for 6 months, but still wondering if it can record video. Why so ex but cannot do what an cheap digi cam does (video recording)? Any comments?

It'll be scary if it can take video since the CCD is situated under the mirror. So you'll probably hear the mirror flapping up and down 25 times per second if video mode was possible... :P

[lytefunk]

FYI, S3 pro can do real time preview on the LCD..

hehe

[zaxh81]

Originally Posted by lytefunk FYI, S3 pro can do real time preview on the LCD.. hehe

wow.it's getting more out of topic here.
Seem like this is always the case.

[chisiang]

Your handphone also can take photos and some even video!! And it's heaps cheaper than any digicam! Best of all, you can make phone call and text your friend!

Can your $300 digicam make phone calls and text friends?

[RiStaR]

Originally Posted by Zerstorer That's not the reason. FYI the D70 uses an interline transfer CCD.

No it doesn't. If it did, you'd be able to view through the LCD instead of having a mirror block it. Anyways, I don't think there's a dSLR which doesn't use a FFT sensor. Only point of going the dSLR route. Better quality.