new photos

I resisted for years, but I finally bought a digital camera. I didn't want a cheap point and shoot (although I'm certain the next P&S we buy will be digital), and I'm not rich. Which meant that I had to wait long enough for digital SLRs to become, if not actually inexpensive, less expensive than the $3000 to $6000 they have cost for the last couple of years.

I have lots of Nikon gear, so rather than dump it all and start over with Canon, I've been waiting for Nikon to release a digital SLR that I could afford that would provide a feature set that appealed to me. I had been planning on purchasing a D100, but last fall Nikon announced the development of the D70. This is a similarly capable dSLR to the D100, same resolution, etc. There are some feature differences between the two, but ultimately I decided the differences weren't enough to justify spending an extra $500 for the D100.

For now I'm putting the D70 images in their own gallery, which you can see here. I have been shooting in RAW mode, and then tweaking the images in Nikon Capture. I'm still working on my technique, so hopefully my images will improve with practice.