Camera Woes

My Nikon 4500 looks to be on the way out. I have been having more and more problems with the camera while I have been using it. Like I’ll pop the internal flash open but the camera will not read thats its open until I ‘jiggle’ the head. Or, I have to enable the internal flash when I use the external flash or neither one will fire. The focus is also starting to have problems. 80% of the images I take with my fisheye lens are soft and about 10% without are also soft.
I don’t think getting it fixed is much of an option, it was a refurbished unit (Christmass gift from by awesome brother!) and the replacement cost is too high to justify buying what is now an obsolite camera.
I think its time to start saving the change in my pockets and go buy that Nikon D70. I can see so many advantages to having one of those its not even funny! The only drawbacks I see are that I can’t rotate the lens like on the 4500, I have to use the optical viewfinder to compose my shots, and I can’t use my fisheye lens on it. The tradeoffs are well worth having a digital SLR that I can change lenses on and do all sorts of things that are common to even a low end SLR. I’m looking forward to messing with a lagging flash sync! I’ve never had a camera that could do that.