And among the “better” things, I dumped digital. Well, I had Canon digital for 2.5 years, with the EOS 300D, and I do have a D70s body(which I don’t use all that often), but I bought a used Nikon F5, to replace the old and battered F90 body. The F90 was my best camera whie it lasted, and it has been through a lot. And I am liking the F5 – and still learning its many, many features. Walking around with a f/2.8 lens is so much better than the silvery Canon body. All I need now is a nice lil slide scanner

And, when I saw the newly announced Nikon D200, I had little doubts in adding it to my list of “desirables”. One review at DPreview.com and another plugging review by Ken Rockwell. Couple of pictures of the camera, taken from DPreview.com

And the good thing about it is the fact that I can use my old Nikon lenses. Something that I miss with the Canon – even though I have 3 lenses for the camera. Not really sure when I can buy it, but it looks really nice – feature-wise. First comes the laptop, let’s see when I can budget another gadget buy

I flashed my Canon EOS-300D with the Russian firmware patch which enables a lot of menus akin to the EOS-10D. Some of the newly enabled features work, but there are others that show up in the menu, but don’t work. Canon would’nt be such suckers releasing 2 cameras with identical features locked up by firmware, would they?

Nikon’s D70 should give Canon’s Digital Rebel a run for its money in the market – finally, Nikons come up with a product that will allow amateur and hobbyists with AF/Nikkors to venture into the digital photography world.

What else…I need a new laptop, atleast I am sure about the specs. Don’t know any model that would answer to it, or how much it would cost. Maybe in the next few days will post what i want from my laptop.

Reviews:
http://www.photo.net/equipment/canon/300D/eos_300d_review.html