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May 18, 2005

[ NIKON D70 firmware upgrade ]

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NIKON today released the free firmware upgrade for the D70 digital single lens reflex to give that camera some of the features of the new D70s.

NIKON says that the new features in firmware v2.0 are:

* Performance of the 5-area AF system has been improved (Dynamic area and Closest subjct AF-area modes).
* Changes have been made to the design of menu displays.

* Page-size settings can now be applied from the camera with direct printing from a PictBridge-compatible printer.
* The number of exposures remaining, displayed in the control panel and viewfinder, when shooting at an image-quality setting of NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic has been changed (the number is calculated based on the size of compressed RAW file).
Maximum number of exposures displayed when a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card is used:
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 camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. Now you cannot set the clock back to a date before 2004.12.31.
* A problem that sometimes caused communication between the camera and computer to be unexpectedly terminated when using Nikon Capture Camera Control has been corrected. (Windows)

Australian Nikon owners download the firmware upgrade from Nikon Asia.

We have applied the upgrade to the dpexpert Nikon D70 with only one hassle — the binary file B would not copy to our 1gb Lexar card but we had no problems with a 128m Sandisk card. Someone might have an explanation for this. Trying to copy to the Lexar resulted in a CRC error.

Posted by terry at May 18, 2005 03:40 PM

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