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Originally Posted by charliegreger

hi all.

i lost all my camera gear when my farm burnt down a while back h well and have been chomping at the bit to get my mitts on a dslr again. i used to have the olympus e500, but since then its changed to the e510 i think it is. anyways i have been looking at the nikon d80 and have been wondering what the general consensus is, if any of you perhaps use it. the olympus was an 8mp dslr and the nikon is at 10mp. does it make much of a difference to the quality in the photos or is it negligible. have there been any problems in using it with windows vista etc, although i am using windows xp at the mo, i was contemplating an upgrade.

any comments on the matter will be appreciated. thanks in advance:bye

I wouldn't upgrade yet to Vista, I did and regretted it. I am now back on XP. The question about what camera, well I am a Nikon D300 owner and it's a fantastic camera. You might not want to spend that much and at the end of the day the glass is the important thing, 8 or 10 mp is not that important unless you want to have large poster prints. The D60 is out or will be I've not checked the price, if it's cheeper than the D80 then save some money for a fast standard lens.

Hope this helps.

Dave