Whooooo hooooo!

[Bilbo]

I gave in and bought a D70 body - it arrived Thursday - but that was my wife's birthday so I didn't get chance to play with it.

I've been playing with it today though - I like it already!

Bob

[fujifilmnut]

Congratulations! Let's see some pics.
:cheers:

[Bruce]

I bought my wife a D70 for Christmas but have found myself playing with it continually.
They sure are nice camera's aren't they? Easy to use and wonderful resulting images.
Bruce

[fujifilmnut]

I got it for the SB800 support. I stretched my budget and good judgment and got 3 of them. (I know its crazy) The wireless control is wonderful. Love it.

[fujifilmnut]

We were taking down Christmas decorations and used the rare sunlight to take a snap with the D70.

[Glasseye]

Filmnut or any one

do you know if the sb800 wireless settings are fully compatible with the S3 I'm struggling getting correct exposure with multiple SB800 wireless shots, but no problems with wired setups though.

cheers

Andy

[photoworks]

I can't understand why D70 is the perfect wife's present. My ex girlfriend never bought me any of her accesories :rofl: :rofl: No No No this is not the reason we are not together, just a thought :troutsmac
Anyway D70 was a present for myself, but I don't use it much. My brother doesn't give it to me. Daaaaaad, Mike is............. ;)

Vasilis

[fujifilmnut]

Andy,

The sb800s are ok ttl wired with the S3 but the S3 cannot act as a commander unit for wireless operation. Have you tried to use an SB800 mounted on the S3 and set the SB800 as commander for remote SB800? That may work but I am not sure. I know it does not work with the S2.

[fujifilmnut]

Andy,

See Sandman's recent post in Flashes - he is using the SB800 on an S3 in dttl but not ittl like the D70

[Glasseye]

Hi Fujifilmnut

many thanks just as I thought the S3 is not ittl compatible.

I've just set both SB800's to wireless mode.
slipped the one onto the S3 and master mode setting vanishes only leaves the remote. still love the sharpness subtle tonal quality I'm getting from my S3. ( although I have a D2x on order ASAP but talking to Nikon today they will not be fore sale here in the UK till end of Feb.)

will post some S3 images as soon as I can get the image browser to work ???? and open.

just going to find Sandmans flash posts now

Cheers

Andy

[sandman]

andy i'm not going to be much help here , i've got the 80DX not the 800 , the 80DX works fine on all settings on the S3.
I've no multiple flash set ups so i can't help . sorry .

Brian

[AzRich]

D70 firmware has been updated-

http://tc.versiontracker.com/product/redir/lid/510863/D70fw13.sit

that's the mac link, the pc link should be easy enough to find.

Hey Fuji, are you paying attention? :flame:

[Glasseye]

Thanks for the thought,

How do you like your S3, I'm quite pleased with mine so far. It certainly feels a better camera than my S2, but I do find it a bit weird that you have to trigger the system to be able to use the upright shutter button, Fuji have shot themselves in the foot again. unless there is a setting I've not yet found!!!
With Christmas etc etc and the crap weather etc etc I've not really done any long day out in the cold field tests to see how long the AA's last. They seem to last fine with small lenses in a warm studio. If they are as good outside I suppose I'll have to turn off the 15sec battery saving mode.

Andy

[sandman]

Andy i feel the same as you do about the weather , should have bought the S3 during the summer :lol:
The vertical shutter is crap , better than nothing but having to trip the main shutter to get power does'nt make sense , so i'll proberbly do what i've always done out of habit and just turn the camera into portrait and use the main button .
Had a bit of trouble in Film2 mode in sunlight ,it blew out all the highlights , could'nt reproduce it on a cloudy day so it needs more testing in the various modes before i'll be totally happy , but right now generally it's a far better camera , with a lot smoother images coming out of the jpegs .
Now i've figured out the raw converter i'll take a few Raw shots this weekend outdoors and see what develops (pun intended ) :lol: .

Brian

[Glasseye]

Brian

Don't know about you I'm not an instruction reader, especially software/ mechanical etc. it took me a couple of nights to get my head round the HS-V2 but now I have I'm begining to like it, bundled for '' free ''ish it's almost as good as C1 @ £300 or more.
I only paid £1360 incl for my S3 so I'm quite pleased, we always wish for more, grass is greener etc.
Switching things on and off took a bit of sorting and I could not find the file browser for a couple of hours when I first started.
When you master RAW I'm sure you'll be very impressed with the results, but in camera the files are a bit slow to download on to the CF card but I supose 25meg does need a bit of processing.:help:


Cheers

Andy

[HulaMike]

A question for Andy, Brian and anyone else with S3. I downloaded an S3 RAF file Melody put up and noticed that while it was a 25 MB raw file it still converts to the same 69 MB tiff. I would have thought the converted file would also be larger. Why is this? Is all that extra data involved with the expanded DR?

[HulaMike]

Bump.

Why does the S3 25MB RAF only open to the same 69MB TIF as the S2 12 MB RAF ?????

[photoworks]

Bump.

Why does the S3 25MB RAF only open to the same 69MB TIF as the S2 12 MB RAF ?????


Mike, is it converted to 16bit or 8bit?

Billy

[HulaMike]

Billy, Melody kindly put a 25 MB S3 RAF on her site that I downloaded. Converted, it became a 16 bit 69.4 MB Tif. But that's the same size as a 12 MB RAF from the S2 produces. I'm wondering why? Shouldn't we end up with something like a 135MB Tif from the S3?

Here's something even more weird. In Fuji Converter, v3.0 for the S3, you can choose either 4256x2848 or 4230x2829 sizes. Whats the extra 26 pixels all about? One opens to 68.3MB, the other 69.4MB. No comprendo this small difference.

[Glasseye]

Yep Mike

I was suprised that a RAW 25mg only converted to a 71meg max file. at 300dpi 16bit. but the results are certainly look sharper and smoother than the S2 at max res.
or perhaps we've all missed something in the Hyper utility software, or Fuji have forgotten to add it to the Disk yet :rofl:


Andy

[HulaMike]

LOL! Do you think its related to expanded dynamic range then? Where's Swampy......

[photoworks]

It seems that S3 handles Rafs in a different way, maybe the expanded Drange contains more info when it's "compressed"to RAW.
But if the results are better than the S2 (I'm sure for this) then bigger prints can be done with a little more interpolation, hmmm...looks interesting as I usually print large pictures :) :)

Billy

[Swampy]

LOL! Do you think its related to expanded dynamic range then? Where's Swampy......

It would HAVE to be related to the extended dynamic range. Remember, the camera has a DR setting of Auto, W1 and W2. There is no "Off". So it's always there which would explain all RAW's being the same 25 megs. As slow as the S3 writes and the file size it creates, you'd be lucky to get me to use RAW anymore, which is why I'm keeping the S2. :) Expanded range or not, it's still a great camera along side that S3. Nothing worth my upgrade in the S3.