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The _camera_ isn't too important for good pictures - the optics are. Some argue the best digital SLR cameras are from Nikon, some say they are from Canon. Personally, I prefer Canon, but these are the facts:
-If you have an "old-fashioned" Nikon SLR, you most likely should get a Nikon. Nikon allows you to use lenses from analogue SLR cameras. If you got a film-Canon SLR from before, you can't use the lenses on a digital Canon SLR.
-Nikon, and I hate to admit this, has a wider range of lenses. As to my knowledge, you can only get a Canon macro down to 50mm or so, whilst Nikon gives you down to 25 or 35mm...
-Canon EOS D-series has a wonderful UI, and is considered easier to learn using.
As for quality on the cameras themselves, Nikon is ahead in the 35mm market, and has always been, but nothing digital beats the Canon D1. 11mpx, 2GB+ storage support, 60mpx\sec, 1\30000 sec shutter speed and so on... Of course, it's hopelessly expensive, and can best be compared to a Lamborghini Diablo. Nobody can afford one, but it gives the Lamorghini Tractors better cred. All in all, they're the same.
Rule of thumb is that IF you have an SLR from before, buy a digital SLR from the same people. With Nikon, you can use the same lenses, with Canon, it's basically the same useage functions on all EOS cam's.
(I'm not even mentioning non-SLR digital cameras, mainly because they all blow. The Nikon CP 995 is considered a relatively professional non-SLR. I own one. It's not.)
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