Hi Glasgow Gunner that is a very good question, as i say i have always had Nikons from fe2s d40 d50 d80 and in the early days Minolta dynax and even a mamiya, anyway back to the question a few mouths ago i brought a nikon 18 105 lens for my d80 which i could never get on with it was so heavy on the tripod i was getting plenty of camera shake.I had a small manfrotto tripod and a jessops tripod and still i was finding it hard to keep still as i like hrd work this was getting on my ti##.The d80 body was
second hand as well as the lens,so with a brain wave i decided to sall the lot in which i did on ebay and done very well.Then the question was ok what will i buy i didnt fancy a Nikon D90 and the d300 is far to much money for the amount of use it would get. So i looked at Canon i always slated Canon which is unfair as i have never own one.So i looked into a few diffrent models and chose the 450d . Iam must say iam looking forward to getting to know the the new camera. Lets face it we all know the Nikon and canon are all superb cameras it just down to choice i think in life you have to try diffrent things.That just leaves a tripod to get and i think iam going for a red snapper off Joe, when i get chance i shall take some new hdr images and post them on TP Paul.