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Inside Nikon’s D70 factory

by | Feb 25, 2004 | Photography Equipment

There is a interesting look inside the Nikon D70 factory in Thailand that is set to produce 800 000 D70’s in 2004, interesting pictures etc.

The projected production run for 2004 is 800,000 units of the D70 camera body from the Nikon Thailand factory. The D70 has been eagerly awaited world wide by photographers because it is the first Digital SLR camera body to challenge the immensely popular Canon 300D (Digital Rebel).
Nikon has gone Canon better this time and produced a camera that has capabilities so far not available at this camera’s price point and some capabilities not available before at any price point. Although prices may vary in different regions, the current battle between Canon and Nikon is for the US $999. digital SLR camera market.

FBI shuts down ISP to investigate 1 person

by | Feb 24, 2004 | Front Page

I noticed on Boing Boing Blog a story about the FBI shutting down a whole ISP, shifting its servers to their HQ for data mining purposes in order to investigate a single suspected attack launched from their IRC servers.
This is a truly shocking example of the kind of freedom that Americans really enjoy, the privacy of citizens is non existent if the FBI can just pitch up and copy terabytes of data not belonging to the individual they are pursuing. Read all about it on the poor ISP’s News Page. This is the kind of story that a few decades ago would be shoved in your faces as an example of the atrocities of Communism by these very same self righteous Americans.

The FBI executed a search warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding the IRC network that we host. According to the warrant, it appears that the Bureau is investigating whether someone hosted on our network hacked and attacked someone else.
After several hours of attempting to track down, inspect and audit the terabytes of data that we host, the FBI determined that it was more efficient (from their point of view) to remove all of our servers and transport them to the FBI local laboratories for inspection. This was completed at 7:00 pm EST same day.

UPDATE: This is covered here as well, link via slashdot.org

First Nikon D70 reviews

by | Feb 21, 2004 | Photography Equipment

I am dying to get my hands on a Nikon D70 that was announced last December and again in January, so far they are not in the shops and no-one can get their hands on demo models to write about them.
A few preview reviews have been published but nothing major yet, I came across another today that was not mentioned before by a non-commercial reviewer and so far I have to say I cannot wait to get my old kit sold and buy the new camera.
The annoying thing is Nikon is not doing anything at this point to feed the hype, even the sample images that were released are of pre-production models and traditionally the difference in quality can be massive. The UK suppliers are taking pre-orders and quoting early March delivery, I hope they are right ๐Ÿ™‚
UPDATE:
I noticed a lot of people come here looking for sample images taken with the D70, here are a few links I found on-line to help you guys out:
dpreview 1 (lots here, read the whole thread)
dpreview 2 (lots here, read the whole thread)
Here is a shot of the box and its contents:
box and contents
And some more online reviews:
www.hardwarezone.com
dpmac.com