Digital SLRS are quickly becoming the fastest moving segment of the digital camera market, this means more new digital SLRs more competition and lower prices.The nikon D50 is introduced as a more affordable and easier to use version of the D70 which has was released just under fifteen months ago.Anyone who has seen or handled the D70 will immediately see a strong resemblance in the D50, its only when you start to to examine the canera in a little more detail that you notice the differences clearly the D50 is designed to compete with other affordable digital SLRs such as the canon EOSD, PENTAX*IST DS and OLYMPUS E-300.