Great camera for budding pro

The D70s is in my opinion a truly great camera. The feel and handling of the whole system is excellent and reminds me of my old Nikon 801s. I must add that if you don't know hat you are doing you may get frustrated with flat dull looking images at first. That's because of the camera's default settings. Once you start playing round with the menu and discover that you can customize the D70s image processor you will be astounded, like I was. As I said its different from a point and shoot and should be approached in that way. The D 70s also will tend to shoot an image under exposed in bright light so as not to blow out any detail, but when spot metering is used the exposures are spot on and require little adjustment. The 18-70mm DX kit lens is by far the best kitlens on the market and kicks the 350d's lens into touch, the detail and quality of my images is really amazing. So if you are a bad photographer you should not even consider the D70s, you will only be frustrated and disappointed. But if you know what you are doing are serious about photography and want to get a camera that is going to deliver jaw dropping results at a great price, the D70s is the machine for you.