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My Nikon D70s rocks too!
Hi Doc: I got a Coolpix 4500 some years ago, after seeing a 990 a co-worker had. I took a bunch of photos with it, and loved the digital-ness of it, no chemicals, no negatives, no muss or fuss. But there were a few things I hated about it. You could do manual setting of nearly everything, but it was agonizingly slow or difficult or complicated or backwards from how I expected it to work. And you could press the shutter button, but you never know when it was actualy going to take the exposure. So I bought a D70s just a few weeks ago, and I spent much of the last weekend crawling around in my backyard taking pix of flowers. I got the standard kit lens on the body, on sale for $1100. Then I bought a 60mm Micro lens for close-up work. One of the many things I like about the 4500 (which I'm not getting rid of!) was the one-botton puch to be in Macro mode. I'm a big rock collector, and into nature in all the other ways you can be, so getting VERY close to the subject is sometimes real important to me. If you don't get the Nikon D70s, try a Panasonic with the Leica lens, my co-worker with the Coolpix just got one, and it's pretty good...but that shutter lag is still there. The D70s just shoots! And everything can be manual, and it's just like a traditional Nikon in that mode.
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