December 5, 2006
The Nikon D70 has been, and continues to be, a great friend to me since I bought it in early 2004. I love it. It’s one of the best engineered pieces of equipment I have ever owned. I have travelled over a number of continents on many occassions with my trusty pal. I have made the investment in Nikon lenses and will likely continue to purchase their cameras for this reason alone, aside from the fact that I am a dedicated buyer after sold on quality.
Part of becoming an early adopter of technology is facing up to the fact the your acquisitions will no longer be the best. That’s tough for a techno-dweeb like myself to swallow. And when compared to the technology that some of my best friends (you know who you are) are acquiring as of late, I have to rest on my superior photography skills alone rather than the well engineered machines that can obfuscate (look it up) user deficiencies.
With recently released data, Flickr confirms the dramatic surge in certain models of DSLRs while the D70 lags considering the deprecated model given the original year of release.
The representation above depicts the number of photographs uploaded to Flickr this year using the Nikon D70 (not the D70x)
The representation above depicts the number of photographs uploaded to Flickr this year using the Canon Rebel XT.
The representation above depicts the number of photographs uploaded to Flickr this year using the Canon Rebel XTi.