Photography - Best Camera

[glatt]

So with your Nikon D70, how easy is it to get the camera to do what you want? Let's say you want to take a silhouette of a person. Can you easily expose for the the background sky so the person ends up dark? My Nikon Coolpix 950 (which is now a dinosaur at 6 years old) will let you do that, but you need the stupid manual to figure out which buttons to push and knob to spin. Or if you want to change the aperature to mess with the depth of field, can you do that easily? Mine can also do that, but again, you have to push buttons and scroll through a menu and then turn a knob to select what you want. Also, what's the lag time between pushing the shutter button and the image being made? That's also frustratingly long on mine. Action shots are impossible.

My Coolpix 950 (Which was $1000 new) is great at snapshots and takes beautiful images, but forget anything creative. That's not true, you can have fun with composing the image, but that's about the only creativity you have.

Maybe I would completely embrace digital cameras if the camera was designed well enough to be fully automatic, or flip a switch and then use it like an old fashioned manual SLR.