Picture Quality / Size Options (8.0)
The Nikon D70 offers the following quality settings: basic, normal, fine, NEF (RAW), and NEF+ JPEG. RAW format records exactly what the sensor sees while the file is compressed to a smaller size, but does not lose any data in the process. Similar to the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, the Nikon includes an embedded JPEG format that can be extracted once the image is downloaded onto a computer. The image size options are Small (1504 x 1000), Medium (2240 x 1488), and Large (3008 x 2000). They are a little bit smaller than the options offered by the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, but not by much.
Picture Effects Mode (7.5)
The Nikon D70 Digital-Vari program offers a wide variety of image optimization options available in program, manual, shutter, and aperture priority modes. You can choose from normal, vivid, sharp, soft, direct print, portrait, and landscape to optimize their settings according to image type. Within custom, you are given the opportunity to adjust sharpness, contrast, color reproduction, saturation, and hue. Most people won’t bother adjusting these settings for the majority of their pictures, especially since the default settings usually do a pretty good job, but it’s nice to have all the options there when you want them.
