This was my first dslr camera I am very impressived solid quilty image quilty and esily undershood features. wonderful camera its not cheap but d70 best for digital photography its a 6.1 magapixal , iso 200-1600 and continuously at 3 frames/ sec. at a wedding I saw guest shooting with d70 and 50mm 1.8 lens when I explained inlike canon - nikok did not otphaize its customers when it went af, the chiose was easy.