Nikon D70 anyone?

I visited Rene Tan's latest house design in Jln Jelita last Staurday and took these shots. (I'll be doing a piece on the house later, but anyone's first thoughts on seeing this house would be that there's a lot of glass. Whether this is good or bad is something I may want to talk about in my article later.) But for now, I'm just keen to find out if there are any takers for my Nikon D70 which is remarkable for everything I shoot except for the one that matters most to me: Architecture. The problem is in the barrel distortion in Nikon's lenses. It seems it's inevitable in most digital cameras when you have wide angle lenses. The maximum wide angle with the kit lens of D70 is 18mm, or an equivalent of 28mm in conventional 35mm film camera. That's not nearly good enough, as I used to shoot with a 24mm lens with NO distortion. But as it is, the 18mm digital lens here is already poorer than the film 28mm lens. So I dread getting Nikon's 12-24mm DX lens, which is equals to something like the 24-35mm lens in film format. I've read that this lens will require a fair amount of correction in Photoshop, which is a software I don't have.

Anyways, in short, I've got to get another camera. And I'm offering my D70 for $1,200/-. It was bought in Oct 2004 for $2,000/- and is retailing today for about $1,700/-. It is still a perfect all-rounder (almost every photo on this blog was taken with the D70), and as further incentive, I'm throwing in the 1 gig card as well. I'm hoping that not all photographers are as finicky as me when it comes to architectural photography. Or else, they don't mind correcting their wide-angled architectural shots in Photoshop later.

Chup