D70s mirror lock up

[Esoterra]

How does it work exactly? From my understanding, you go into the D70s menu and select Mirror lock up, it tells you to press the shutter release button, which I am doing, then ----- ------ blinks in the display screen. Then I try to press the shutter release button a second time, but nothing happens. I thought the idea was to press the shutter release button to lock up the mirror, and then press the shutter release again to take the picture, but the D70s aint doing that!

I'm starting to wonder if the mirror lock up feature on the D70s is for sensor cleaning purposes only??

Thanks for responding!

[coldrain]

The D70(s) and D50 do not have mirror lockup, something to do with the way the shutter is triggered.

[Ray Schnoor]

I can't speak for the D70s, but mirror lock up on the D70 is only for sensor cleaning. When you go to mirror lock up on the menu, you press the shutter button which locks up the mirror and opens the shutter. You can then clean the sensor area. To exit you turn the power off.

Ray.

[TNB]

I'm starting to wonder if the mirror lock up feature on the D70s is for sensor cleaning purposes only??
I "locked" the mirror up on my D50 when I was shooting very fast without the multiple exposure option on--two photos were almost identical. Since I was unsure of what to do, I basically removed the lens, clicked the shutter button, remounted the lens, and then was able to continue shooting photos.

After getting back into town and stopping by the camera store, I mentioned what had happened in the field. I was then informed that if I would have used the "mirror lock-up option" (P116 of the D50 Manual), it would have basically fixed the problem I had encountered. Perhaps, that is a "second" use for "mirror lock-up" or whatever one wants to call it or not.

[Esoterra]

So in essence, you are limited to how sharp your pictures will come out on the D70s as there is internal movement with the mirror everytime you take a picture, so this takes some away from image sharpness?

Does the D200 utilize mirror lock up for sharper images, or is the mirror lock up only for cleaning purposes like the D70s?

[Ray Schnoor]

So in essence, you are limited to how sharp your pictures will come out on the D70s as there is internal movement with the mirror everytime you take a picture, so this takes some away from image sharpness?

Does the D200 utilize mirror lock up for sharper images, or is the mirror lock up only for cleaning purposes like the D70s?
On the D200(and maybe the D80), I believe that you can take photos utilizing mirror lock up.

Ray.

[dad_of_four]

So in essence, you are limited to how sharp your pictures will come out on the D70s as there is internal movement with the mirror everytime you take a picture, so this takes some away from image sharpness?

Does the D200 utilize mirror lock up for sharper images, or is the mirror lock up only for cleaning purposes like the D70s?
The mirror slap vibration only affects pictures take in the range of about 1/25 second to 1 second.

Faster than 1/25, and the shutter is so quick that any vibration is not picked up by the sensor.
Slower than 1 second, and any vibration is miniscule compared to the total exposure.

[Esoterra]

The mirror slap vibration only affects pictures take in the range of about 1/25 second to 1 second.

Faster than 1/25, and the shutter is so quick that any vibration is not picked up by the sensor.
Slower than 1 second, and any vibration is miniscule compared to the total exposure.

This is what I wanted to hear lol!