my school bought a slew of the nikon 3100's for students to use, and that has amazing macro...but I would never own one because it doesn't have anything else that I want in a camera. I like to check the 3100 out a lot tho and get closeups with that...

It's not that the 5700 is a bad camera, I just feel that perhaps I want more than it provides and didn't realise that when I got it, and should have gone for a non-Nikon one instead.

I saw the D70 get talked about when I was in the market for a camera in October, but it was some months away at the time - looks like maybe March or April will be the release date, so I went for the 5700.

I couldn't wait though, I had no camera at all, as my parents got my Nikon 990 for their time in Africa, and I wanted a replacement asap.

But maybe when the D70 comes out I'll take a look at it...

All that said though, Heather and Hugo are right - there's a lot more to photography than the camera.

Just my two cents. A few years back Nikon was KING OF THE HILL on digital cameras market, then especially with their compacts they gave up field to Canon, Sony, Olympus and Fujifilm. At this point the release of Canon Digital Rebel - will seriously damage market share held by high end prosumer models like Nikon 5700, Sony F828, Minolta A1, and Fujifilm 7000 and Olympus E series. Canon developed and improved technology around CMOS sensors while other manufactures worked with much more expensive CCD technology trying to put more and more pixels on the same size (VERY SMALL) sensors see www.tribe.net/tribe/uploa...26c6e1820a94
Due to larger size of pixels Canon has obviously advantage in overall picture quality (low noise), not to mention the fact that they manufacture everything in house and were able to use low cost "analog" body for quick remake. I was about to buy one but than had a second thought - and went instead with an old style analog camera. Not an obvious choice but I am very satisfied indeed. Check also a thread here a while back on Digital vs. conventional - good reading!

Getting back to digital - you can easily imagine all other makers will try to follow Canon`s way and possibly within second part of the year reveal what they have been working on and kept hidden in the pipeline.


More links for headaches - aging digital sensors tend to develop their own share of problems (not much info on manufactures Web sites but found at least this one)(Nikon Singapore).
www.nikon.com.sg/TechSupp/...Random.htm