Digital photography

daccordi I've just bought myself a D80 a few months ago, I love the camera tis been giving me some great shots I would definately recomend it. My dad has the D40x which seems very similar but with less buttons so changing functions is done through menus which can get a bit annoying.

I went for the Nikon over the Canon as I've got other Nikon cameras and always liked them. I'm sure theres lots of varying reasons to buy either but you will probably get very good photos with both.

Do many people here shoot in RAW? I still haven't looked into it yet and don't quite yet understand the advantages, no ones really explained it to me apart from my dad who I on't think knew what he was talking about

i got a 4gig memory card so yes, i do shoot in RAW. i'm no expert by any means tho - more like a beginning amateur! basically, i guess i don't have enough time to spend shooting, but i do enjoy it. i think the advantages (of RAW) are that you can do more manipulation with the shots as you have all the detail that was captured by the camera, rather than a compressed version that may be lossy when you get down to the detail. saying that, some of the first shots i took before using RAW (i.e. jpeg) i had blown up to A2 size, approximately, and they looked pretty decent.

btw, interesting site for photos: http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery.htm