Amazingly, I recently complained about this on one of my flickr photos, and flickr buddy Rob Bernhard gave essentially the same advice. I haven't had a chance to open up my camera yet (also a D70), but have gotten a cleaning kit.
As I Went Out one morning
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Macworld: Secrets: Cleaning your digital-camera sensor
Should you be out of the know, it’s like this: When you switch lenses on your SLR, it’s possible for the camera to collect small specks of dust on the sensor—the light-sensitive silicon chip that samples incoming light. Even without changing lenses, you can collect dust when shooting in dry, dusty environments. These bits of dust manifest themselves as tiny (and sometimes, not-so-tiny) spots on your pictures.
Nikon tells you precious little about the ways and means of cleaning a D70’s sensor so it was off to purchase Thom Hogan’s $34.90 Complete Guide to the Nikon D70 & D70s. I won’t give away the plot of Thom’s PDF guide other than to say that he provides more details and recommendations on how to go about cleaning the sensor than does the Nikon manual that comes with your D70 purchase.
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