Hey Eve, I don't know how but I missed your post friday, just saw it now, Camera expert NO, As it turns out after tweny years (remember people in glass houses)lol, I have to start from the beginning again, but I do like canon's I had the A-1 for 5-6 years and loved it!, great camera really miss it now!, also had a minolta srt-201 optics not as good but rugged (went to alot of concerts), As far as learning the nikon (it's going to be a long road)lol, I just had a breakthrough all my pic's were orangey, I preset the white balance and I think I fixed it, hey who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks LOL, the rule of thumb is for each year of age add a week to the learning cure LMAO - Jim



Eve