Flops, I'll swap you for the Nikon D40X ...
I was looking for a DSLR, yeah, but not the price they want. ouch! So I settled for what I could afford, and, keep to the SLR feel & look. I needed something more up-to-date to satisfy my new 'birding' bug.
It cost £119.00, (Jesop's) though I did get the obligatory extra SD cards ... Sandisk 1Gb x 2 ... I ain't used the second one yet, and I have taken a bloody load of pics.
Don't forget, I haven't shown you all the pics I have deleted ... don't-cha just love digital.
It's a 7.1 Mpixle with 10x zoom, well, that is the hype, we know it ain't quite what you get.
I have it set to the highest parameters, 7Mfine / chrome ... you know how big a pic can get on maxed out settings.
Some of the shots you have seen, that I have posted, especially the Kestrel, were at max zoom ... I was quite pleased with them ... however, there is a bit of purple in the pics that Fuji still hasn't fixed ... a known 'problem' apparently, and I can 'see' it in many of my landscapes.
A simple fix is to just reduce the image size, glad I chose to max everything out.
I'm not surprised you thought highly of your Canon ... they still are #1 with Nikon in 2nd place ... surprise is Sony at #3. ouch!
It has a lot to do with the "sensor" used & not just the lens ... I also have a good eye,
not bad for a blind person.
I still have Nettie's Samsung, great for landscapes & town-tours ... ie, my trip round Southport, but bloody crap for birdies.
Oh, and the macro-mode is bloody great, two setting can be used, on super macro I had the face of the camera 1cm off the subject, you can go out further, but the macro mode is unbelievable ... I need a tripod.
You wanna see the rest of the pics, including some of them macro's, just give the nod, I'll email you me Picasa album from today.
