Hi folks,

I normally hang out in the Bryce and Poser forums and I'm not giving those up by a long shot, (I've pre-ordered Poser 6 and I'm also waiting for DAZ to release Bryce 5.5) but I've also decided to get back into photography.

I used to be very involved with photography, mainly B&W (had my own darkroom) and some color (slides) but slowly drifted away as CG took more and more of my time.

I have a digital camera, it's a P&S (Olympus) and IMO it is not suitable for serious photography but I have also held on to my collection of conventional photo equipment, mostly Nikons with a fairly complete selection of prime Nikon lenses, both manual and auto focus (16mm Fisheye to 300mmm telephoto).

With the price of DSLRs within reach ($1000-$1300+/-) I feel it is high time for me to continue, and possibly combine CG art, with photography.

I have pretty much settled on getting the Nikon D70 with the 18-70 Nikon zoom. The D70 will allow me to still make use of my existing lens arsenal, albeit with some (OK, many) limitation, especially the manual focus lenses...

My question is do any of you guys and gals use the D70, what is your opinion of it and do you use it with older, non-AF lenses?

Thank for reading and TIA for your thoughts, opinions and advise...

Walter

Message edited on: 03/13/2005 21:50