Digital SLR Cameras > 8 - 10 Megapixels Digital SLR Cameras > 2.5 > CMOS

Advantages: Durable, Reliable, Responsive and Full of features
Disadvantages: none

I own this for the past 3 months now and I love it. I upgraded from my other favourite 300D, which by the way is a great performer in itself. Sporting a 8.2 megapixel APS-C sized sensor, this workhorse is capable of giving great pictures time after time. Coming from Canon, it is no surprise that this right up there in terms of quality. Throughout internet you would it being compared with the very successful EOS 20D and rightly so, it is an important ...
...which makes this special are: 1. Large 2.5" LCD 2. Spot Metering 3. Picture Style 4. Advanced Noice Reduction algorithms even at high ISO like 800 and 1600 5. Choice of drive speed 5fps or 3fps and a larger buffer 6. 100,000 shot shutter durability 7. ISO selection in 1/3 stops 8. Almost instantaneous start up time (0.15s) 9. Retains all that 20D had to offer So, if you are serious amateur or a budding professional, this is the camera you ... Read review

Advantages: Body, sharp
Disadvantages: battery

...the lithium-ion batteries for the Canon EOS 1D Mark II NiMH batteries. NiMH batteries require a bit more attention (the most common treatment / Load-), the optimum design. With the performance of the battery of the Canon EOS-1D Mark II there, I'm not worried about the downside as a relatively minor role. They told me that the Canon EOS 1D Mark II requires the ability of lithium-ion batteries are not available can provide - for NiMH batteries. A couple ... Read review

Advantages: Size and weight, All-black design,Depth-of-Field preview button, Very Quiet
Disadvantages: Slightly Less solid backplate, Low-light focus assist uses flash.

...features, the new Elan has refilled a niche for me that is equally important. Compact, lightweight, attractively designed and finished, and extremely capable, the new Canon EOS Elan 30 is the perfect travel/backup camera, and may be the only camera a serious nature photographer on a budget will ever need. ... Read review

Advantages: top-notch image quality; professional body; very low noise even at high ISOs.
Disadvantages: none

Nikon likes incremental upgrades. Just as the company issued the D70s before moving from the D70 to the D80, they made a handful of upgrades to the 12.4-megapixel D2X to create the D2Xs. In addition to improving the LCD viewing angle and tweaking the autofocus performance, the battery life, and a handful of other minor features, Nikon also modified the high-speed crop function to make it more intuitive to use. They've also added a new black-and-white ...
...to ISO 1600). Nikon D2Xs More on this product review specifications compare shop * Print * E-mail * Share * Yahoo! Buzz top side back camera on top side back * CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars Excellent Detailed editors' rating Design: 9.0 Features: 8.0 Performance: 9.0 Image quality: 9.0 Overall score: 8.8 (4.0 stars) * Average user rating: 0 stars Write your own review * See all user reviews Product summary The goodThe good: ... Read review

Advantages: very high sensitivity range
Disadvantages: none

Olympus E-520 dSLR, the replacement for the E-510 and step-up model from its E-420. The feature set is very similar to the E-420, but for the extra dough you do get some significant capabilities, such as sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that accommodates panning while vertically oriented), a larger continuous-shooting buffer and a deeper grip. Like the E-420, the E-520 incorporates the same sensor as in the higher-end ...
...LCD as its little brother, and also includes support for face detection (still unusual for a dSLR), wireless flash and tonal-range correcting Shadow Adjustment Technology. it has the features of Sensitivity range Focal-length multiplier Fastest continuous shooting Mechanical image stabilization Viewfinder Eye point n/a Autofocus ... Read review