Hey, what do I know... I have never tried a real live professional Nikon, for instance, with appropriate lenses. Just that Coolpix 8700 which is, ultimatively, nothing to write home about. My Olympus 5050 is better than that, although it has less megapixels. G6 is better than that. But I don't know the professional range of their cameras and lenses. Or Canon's, for that matter. I tried to get my grubby little hands on that professional 14 MP Kodak, but the distributor orders one only when somebody buys it. Which means, never, or maybe not even then. :-)

-- erlik