On vacation with D70 & F10

[Franglais]

Last month I went on holiday to Club Med in Kemer (which I thoroughly recommend). As Club Med is more about participating than taking photos, I decided to shoot all digital for the first time - the F10 on my belt for wandering around the Club and the D70 for excursions in historic Turkey. Somehow I managed to shoot 920 usable images and 15 minutes of high-quality video. Now I've had time to process it all, here are my observations:

The F10 exceeded my expectations. Almost all the images looked right, straight out of the camera, despite all the silly things I asked it to do. Extremely impressive.

The D70 JPG's out of the camera looked dull and dark compared with the F10 ones. I had to take the RAW files and process them in Nikon Capture to make them look right.

Images:

a. Kemer at 8am by D70 - this village is very big on waterski
b. Kemer at 9pm by F10 - perhaps I should have used "slide" mode
c. A stage production (F10 1600 ISO 1/40 sec)
d. Julie in the St Nicolas church lit by bounce flash from the ceiling 60 feet above (D70+SB800 at 800 ISO)

You just can't get this sort of versalility out of so little equipment with film.

Charles

[OldSchool]

Very nice shots Charles. Thanks for sharing...
Tim

p.s. Flat D70 jpegs is something discussed often. Since you have NC, download a custom curve. Doing this has minimized the amount of PP that I've had to do. Also note that, NC will use these custom curves too resulting in lest PP for NEFs.

Link: http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/

The "downloads" section has his curves. I use the +3EV one.

[jar_e]

Great shots of a place in the world we can't all experience!

Nice shots,

Jared