I certanly hope they have a Compact Flash slot. There have been cameras that take two different kinds of cards before, or they could put a sleeve into the CF slot to fit SD cards. It would be very antagonistic of them to obsolete our investment in a standard that's been around for a long time!

Two wheel operation is a necessity for a pro-grade camera. They can't be too stupid, they must have thought some of this out.

I'd say the D is the more professional camera, the others are aimed at hobbyists who want to get into digital but don't have the cash for the D. The D is designed to be easy to use in various situations when you don't want to deal with menu-diving.

I agree with the assessment of the others as "D Lite".

In October 2006 the successor to the D is supposed to be released, we'll see what it has.

Here in Massachusetts, we have a Rule of Conservation of R. For every word that we leave out the "R", we need to add it to another word. For example, I can go out to get pizza (PEET-zer) in Worcester ("WOOST-ah).

I wouldn't touch that one with a 10-foot pole! And Pytor Wysorski says he won't touch it either!

On one of the forums over here in the good old U S of A, there was a big dustup over the spelling of the word "lense" or "lens". People got hot under the collar, ranted and raved, and generally wasted lots of bandwidth carrying on about one silly letter.

So I shoot color photos with my lens, or shoot colour photos with my lense! Who cares?

I never noticed, but it's true, the A lenses have yellow dots, the M lenses have white dots, and the Limited lenses have green dots.

Perhaps because they can make people green wih envy?

The FA and DFA lense have no dot. Too bad, it's kind of handy sometimes.

I guess I'm just a peon, but a tall glass of Guiness is plenty to make me happy. Especially since I have he 31mm and the 75mm lenses, too!

They both came with black cases, maybe the silver ones have the colorful cases. Whatever, the lenses are just great!

The 31mm f/1.8 Limited is a fantastic lens, and is pretty much a normal lens for the digital cameras.

It is true that to double the resolution, you need four times the pixels. However, 10 megapixels will give us a little more cropping room, and by the time you get near 20 megapixels you need a medium format back unless you want the same problems that plagued the 8 megapixel mini-sensors.

For practical use, six megapixels is plenty. Only a few years ago, a six megapixel medium format back cost as much as a car. Now they seem to think they need 32 megapixels to do the same job.

For printing on a four color offset press, digital has been there for years!

Actually, the best standard lens for the *st D so far is the 31mm 1.8 Limited. Pricey, but worth every penny!!

They finally got the point about the zoom range. The 50-135 will give you pretty much what the 80-200 did on the full frame cameras. I get a lot of use out of an old 45-125 lens, so one stop faster and able to communicate with the electronics in the camera is very attractive!!