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PrizeFight: Nikon D80 vs Canon Rebel XTi
So Cnet has a prize fight on their front page right now between the Canon Rebel XTi and the Nikon D80. Guess what, the $300 more expensive Nikon wins. I really don’t understand how they picked the D80 and not the D40 as the camera to compare the XTi with. The D40 and XTi are actually the same category of entry level hobbyist camera’s. I would rank the D80 as actually encroaching on the “pro-sumer” label the Canon 30D carried (the camera I own, btw). If I had to rank the models top to bottom, I would put the XTi and D40 at about the same at the bottom of the scale, then the Nikon D80, the Canon 30D, the Nikon D200, the Canon 5D, followed finally by the Nikon D1 and Canon 1D pro models about equal on the top. Granted I’m a little biased and never really considered buying the XTi for myself but I gotta stick up for my Canon brethren! Besides, hopefully if I stick up for them now they won’t get mad at me if I buy a Olympus point and shoot to replace my old S1IS.
