"...don't ask me how the wiring would work out..." - shouldn't be a problem alphanikonrex, as cpu's have much more pins to connect

I like the idea of the inside being able to be removed and exchanged, upgraded, modified or just to clean the sensor and inside of camera. The camera would also be easy to modify to Infrared.

Pete

On the bright side, RED has sensor bodies that will take Nikon lenses in the works. In fact they have bodies in the works for nearly all the major lens mounts in many different formats last I heard.

http://www.red.com/epic_scarlet/

I can't help but agree. After all, the external differences between bodies are getting smaller and smaller. How much difference is there between the D300 body and the D200 body? If Nikon can make interchangeable focusing screens, they should be able to make interchangeable "insides." Picture the bottom of your camera opening up to a tray with a handle, that you can pull out and replace with a newer one (don't ask me how the wiring would work out, though). If the tray had all the stuff we want, like the new sensor, bigger buffer, and better focusing module, then we would simply be throwing out the stuff that we actually WANTED upgraded.

True, we'd be upgrading regularly, but it would be better than throwing out our Nikon D1 bodies- I'm sure some people still use them, but the first DSLRs that came out are probably so outdated that a D40 probably has better image quality than it.

I mean, the body is fine- it's just the internals that need replacing if it were possible. It just seems like a terrible waste to me. An otherwise perfectly fine metal body thrown out.

Yes, I have heard that RED makes a swappable sensor camera, but I wouldn't mind if Nikon decided to dabble in it.

And I'm still waiting to shoehorn a D3 sensor into my D40. :D

Adamz, I don't think so- I'm sure they could profit off of individual parts sales much more now. Since everything would be swappable/modular, they can spend more time on developing everything within the camera and spend less time updating the body.

I can always dream.

NSX - it only would be nice for us users, not for the camera makers :)

The folks over at RED make a swappable sensor camera... so it can certainly be done. Of course if Nikon sold their cameras by the component, we'd spend even more money upgrading the shutter one day, and the LCD the next. Then the sensor, then the storage bay... sigh... Maybe the all in one approach is better after all.

Yeah, it sucks that every generation of DSLR improves on the image quality. It'd be nice if the sensors were swappable. You wouldn't need to buy a new camera every time. Stick a new firmware version in and you'd be done.

You'll love the D90. It does everything your D70 does only better. I'm still amazed by my D90's LCD. For all the other great features, having a better view of what I just shot has done more to improve my photography than anything else.

Thanks, should be a nice upgrade from my D70...i even notice most of my sister in laws D40 pics look better than my D70 when i borrowed it once.

As NSX wrote probably the demand is high, as it's a really good camera, probably with the best price to performance rating on the market - great IQ, decent AF

Perhaps demand is high. There's nothing you can do but to wait a while longer for prices to stabilize. Maybe the economic downturn will give you a discount on the camera.

Why does the D90 price seem to jump around by up to $50-75 every other week? Is this normal? Most electronics hold a price then go down. The D90 seems to keep going up! :(

I have a D70 and i'm finally ready to upgrade, trying to catch some sweet point with the price, i think the next gen for this level is too far off to wait for me.