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Digital camera

May 12, 2005 5:13PM PDT

I have 4 nikons from f2 to 8008 and about 6 lenses. I need to buy a decent digital camera but I am now leaning towards simplicity and ease. I am devide between coolpix 8800 and nikon d70s. It is hard to decide. can someone advise me in this?
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Nikon 8800 and D70s
May 13, 2005 8:17AM PDT

I guess it boils down to money, and convenience.

The 8800 offers you a lot in one package, including image stabilization.
No extra lenses to carry around.
All for about $900.

The D70s offers better control of the camera and a huge choice of lenses.
It will cost about the same (without a lens).
But lenses get expensive.
You also end up carrying more than one.

You could end up looking like this man:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/randol9p9/PreparedE.jpg

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'Commercial' Image quality
May 28, 2005 8:41PM PDT

I have plumped for the 8800 because I do not want to spend large amounts of money on SLR technology which still has a long way to go and needs to be much less expensive to make it worth lugging all that equipment around.

I'm just hoping that the 8800 produces images of a qulaity that might be considered for some commercial use. I am hoping to get together a portfolio of Hi quality inages all taken on a tripod and which might be good enough to interest some buyers.