I'm with Mike on B&H and Nikons. I bought my first Nikon camera in 1967 as a Nikomat (Japan model spelling) FtN and my next was a F2S in 1974. I've since gone thru several later film cameras and finally to this D50 I have now. I am lusting for the D300 after using my neighbor's. But, I'm taking it slow here abit, since the house needs work as well as some project guns. A new model D60 is coming out which is a lower model in their line of SLRs that may also be promising. But the D300 has some features that make it actually capture better color saturation etc.
Personally, I like taking the quick detail pics I put on this site with my midsized point n shoot since it's faster to get a picture and has great quality. The SLR takes a bit of time, change lenses to a macro then get the flash out and all. There's no doubt higher quality is achieveable with my SLR over the PnS, but you have to work harder to get it.
