I'm glad you could stretch and get the A80, IMHO the swivel screen is worth
a lot, and 4mp will keep you happy for a good while, too.

Tom P.

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They're both nice cameras, but for the same money, I'd take the Canon. It
has ASA settings to 400 instead of 200 (better low light capability),
manual
focus and both aperture/shutter priority modes (if that matters to you),
and
accepts add-on lenses/filters.

The Nikon, though, is only half the weight, shoots movie clips at 640x400
instead of 320x200, and allows you to zoom in to 10x in preview mode to
check focus.

I'd also recently read that the Nikon has problems capturing at 640*480
in a forum, that and I guess the more manual controls on the Canons
clinched it for me, as well as already owning some 1700MAh batters (slow
8hr charger though). I think I would've got bored of a camera if it was
mostly point and shoot.

I've just gone and bought the Canon A80 (£269.29, £45 more than the A70)
and a ByteStor 256MB 40x Hi-Speed CompactFlash (£49.99) from Amazon. It
was £10 extra for the 'faster' version of the CF card, whether it is I
don't know - but for £10 extra I guess it's worth a try.

They're probably both overpriced but Amazon claims it can deliver before
xmas if I ordered it today - their tracker is showing an estimated 23rd
of December now, here's hoping. I think I'll feel nervous about taking
it around town for fear of dropping it or getting it nicked though.

I suppose I could try it out around Manchester Airport - but they're
putting the Concord in a hangar after this Sunday IIRC.

Cheers.

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