Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Nikon D70 - Popular Photography Magazine Camera of the Year

Nikon D70 - Popular Photography Magazine Camera of the Year: "Nikon D70 - Popular Photography Magazine Camera of the Year"

Yeah baby! That's what I'm talking about, says the proud owner of a Nikon D70 :)
Popular Photography Magazine has been awarded the Nikon D70 'Camera of the Year' status.

'The Nikon D70 was precisely the camera that the photography world needed this year.
A revolution began in 2003 with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel—its $899 sticker, its 6.3-megapixel sensor, and its attitude of "Everybody into the digital SLR pool; the water's fine!"

The question for '04 was how quickly a camera maker would seize on this revolutionary fervor, and add some sophistication, features, fine-tuning, and, well, "maturity" to what the D Rebel had wrought…without pushing the price to a pro-caliber level.

Nikon worked fast, and we had our hands on a nearly completed D70 in time for our May issue. As that article and our lab test of a production model in our June issue showed, Nikon got it right.'

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