Canon and Nikon both make superb cameras and my film camera is an old Nikkormat which I swear by when it counts.
The reason I went with Sony as my first DSLR is because of the subsequent lens' I intend to buy for it. Both Nikon and Canon put the image stabilizer in the lens which makes you pay more for each individual lens.
Sony has been wise enough (or kind enough) to put the stabilizer in the body of the camera, making regular lens' work great. There's more choice with N&C's, but you have to pay more each and every time, not to mention the redundancy factor.
I gotcha, wise move. The canon lenses are Vpricey!!
Here's some pics of mine. I apoligize if any aren't up to snuff with your guys' pics. I live in the mountains... so lot's of wildlife.
I hope you guys liked them.
Very cool cloud shots!!! and the bear is the biz. For a second, I was like, what sort of dog is that...?
We don't have too much wildlife here in the city, apart from Rats, Mice, and birds...but I love wildlife, it's just so pure!
We went to Hluhluwe Umfolozi up the Kwa Zulu Natal, it's a state run wildlife park so your huts are just in the middle of it all, no fences or anything (electricity off at 10pm). Wildlife of all sorts right up at your door. A guy was attacked by a leopard the month before we went, had his back to the dark!!! tut tut (the mother leopard scalped him - but he survived)
This is a shot of the monkeys that hung around our shack.
A stripey Nyala in front of the shack:
Will post more, pics on another system.
Peace. DST
