Owning a Nikon system has been my photography
dream for a long time. Being a perpetual student, I realize that I have to
start now, or I may never make it. Over the past 5 years, I have accumulated
quite a collection!
I finally found myself in complete digital age
on March 2005, when I got D70 Digital SLR. This is like I am liberated from
the tortures by my little Canon point & shoot A70. Now my 4 year
old "little lady" is in complete control over the A70. Well, soon I will attach some images using D70.
I
only use NEF format for D70, which is actually a compressed NEF format. NEF is a manufacturer version of RAW format. Someone
argues it is lossless image, and the others says some information loss during
the compression. As for me, I do not really care. The images are so sharp, and they
do not loose sharpness even when I blow them up tol 300%. In fact, they are
still better than images produced by my little Canon without any magnification. Sure
I cannot compare 3.2MP little camera with 6.1MP SLR.....
The accompanying lens is very light, very
quiet, and pretty fast. In fact, this is the fastest lens I own. I cannot
make any technical review about its quality, but for me it is very sharp. Since I
own
105mm Micro Nikkor, I think I can stand by my comment.
The provided
software called Nikon Picture Project is very slow. After I read some
articles, I downloaded Nikon View 6.2.5, which is the accompanying
software in Europe and Asia. It is clearly faster than Picture Project. Some
folks suggested to use free software called Picasa 2.0 from Google, and of
course the infamous Adobe Photoshop CS to open RAW from from Nikon D70. Surprisingly, I believe Nikon View shows me better
images than Photoshop CS. At least in my monitor. I am sure the optional $99 Nikon Capture 4.2
must be much
better than Nikon View.
Below is the list of equipment that I have collected. You
can also see them in the form of gallery in
here.
FNU Brawijaya or Jaya
