Great news Tom!!! I know you will enjoy this camera. There are 4 of us that try and take a photo trip once a month. 2 of our group use the D70 ( I use the DRebel). They really love their cameras. Please hurray up and post some shots with it. One bit of advise, always shoot in RAW. It took me a month of shooting jpegs before I saw the advantages of shooting RAW.