dB - Well, all other things being equal I would say the biggest difference would be in image quality. Yours would come out bigger, but mine would come out cleaner with less noise and hence, probably more detail. Reason being that the amount of noise in a digital camera image is mostly generated by the size of the individual cells that make up the image array. The bigger the cells, the less noise and the better the image. While the Nikon 8700 is an 8megapixel camera and the EOS 10D is only a 6.32mp, the Nikon has a smaller sensor array. The 8700's array is 8.80mm x 6.60mm while the 10D's is 22.7mm x 15.1mm. Because of that size difference, the natural output from the 10D is cleaner. Then add in the DIGIC processor of the 10D and you get very smooth output from the 10D. -=>Donald