Since I started in 2006 I've shot with my trusty Nikon D70, a real tank of a camera, and though it has produced a whole gallery full of great shots—and a small gallery full of great prints as well—it was aging. Nikon's technology has improved so dramatically over the last 6 years it was getting hard to ignore the larger sharper LCD, the Expeed 3 image processing, and a whole slew of other features.
I had been eyeing different cameras for a long time, considering not only Nikons but Canon's and the Panasonic Lumix micro-four thirds series as well. Considering that the D70 was a relatively heavy camera, and a bit tiresome and bulky t