DP Review has posted a hands-on review of Nikon's new D70. Damn, they're fast.

Overall, looks like a great camera. At the risk of starting a flame war, it appears that Nikon has styled the body to more closely match a Canon 10D than Nikon's own D100.

Among the many nice features:

• Nikon includes a clip-on LCD protector.
• The drive settings are accessed via a single button on the rear of the camera body, just below the mode dial. This makes is convenient to switch from single-frame to burst. Canon's Elan 7 (the basis for the 10D) has a nice, firm, three-way toggle located on the mode dial to switch between drive modes. The 10D dispensed with with, using a button on the top of the camera to enter into "drive changing mode," then using a dial and the LCD screen to switch between them. Neither are as convenient as a real switch, but Nikon's approach appears to be somewhat easier to manipulate.
• The camera can overlay a 4x4 grid on the focusing screen.
• The diameter of the circle used in center-weighted metering can be adjusted.