I have owned this camera for about two months now and have taken about 100 photographs ( keepers) to date. Because I have been involved in photography for almost 35 years, In particular, I have never been comfortable with auto exposure and even less comfortable with auto focus. However, I like this camera. Why? The D70s is a very easy camera to use and I have only had to refer to the manual to check on a couple of settings and look up some features. Honestly, set up takes only a few minutes and handling is not terribly different from a film camera. I should point out that this camera is really designed for auto focus lenses and if you choose to use your manual focus lot, you will disable many of the camera’s features.