Nikon D70 Upgrade

I found out a whille ago that you could upgrade the firmware on your D70 to that of a D70s which I thought was quite exciting but was also a bit wary of doing this by myself as I did not want to upset the apple cart in terms of hurting my lovely D70. However this weekend i picked up the courage to give him a little makeup over and the results are very interesting. A new menu and some new features. It a pretty simple procedure and only took about 10 minuites in total to do.

Issues addressed in firmware version 2.00-Improved performance for the 5-area autofocus system's Dynamic Area AF and Closest Subject Priority Dynamic Area AF modes.

• Updated menus with a new design similar to that of the D70s, making them easier to view and quicker to recognise.
• Page size and setup support for PictBridge compatible printers has been added to the camera menu.
• The display for number of exposures remaining when using NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic image-quality settings has been changed. The number is now calculated based on the average size of a compressed RAW file, instead of the maximum file size.
• Maximum number of exposures displayed using a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card:Version 2.00: NEF (RAW): approx. 44 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 39 exposures.Version 1.03 or earlier: NEF (RAW): approx. 23 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 21 exposures
• The default setting for the camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. The clock can not be set to a date before 2004.12.31.- Correction of a problem that occasionally caused communication between Nikon Capture Camera Control and the D70 to be unexpectedly terminated (Windows).

Click Here to go to the Nikon support website for more help with this issue you are looking for the Firmware update version A 2.00/B 2.00. There are details on how to do this properly. Also I used the email button to get in contact with some of the engineers before i did it and they were more than happy to help. They got back to me within a couple of hours which i thought was really good.

So if you are brave enough give your D70 a make over and get some better results from your camera and enjoy it even more.

Anthony