Derek Fountain wrote:
So I jumped. I sold him my Canon Rebel XT body
So I went out after work and bought the Nikon D80 body,
All I can say is, "wow"...

To be fair, you've gone from an early 2005 camera to a current model
which costs significantly more than the Canon did when it came out.
Hardly surprising such an upgrade feels like a jump in quality - that's
exactly what it is.

Yeah, apart from the viewfinder (which is admitedly better on the D80),
I'm hard pressed to think of many things he mentions that he'd not have
gained by jumping to a 30D. I'm not saying that the 30D is a better
camera, but honestly I can't imagine giving up all of that glass so
lightly.

The irony is that I moved to my 20D from a D70 with the exact same
18-70 and 50/1.8, and I never looked back (in part because of the Canon
glass I chose to invest in... the Nikon *lenses* were always fine),
mostly because the 20D was a better camera than the D70 in every way I
could think to measure. But everyone has different preferences, I
suppose. To be honest, I imagine having seperate dials for shutter and
iris (vs the system on the Rebels) is reason enough to be excited.

Will