Digicams

We really want one of the cameras below this year. We've been so good!

Digital SLR camera: Nikon D80

This is the year of affordable, high-performance digital SLRs, with several impressive models hovering around the thousand-dollar mark. But Nikon has hit the market sweet spot with its D80.

Nikon has built so much into the 10-megapixel D80 that some reviewers wonder if it will cannibalize sales of the pricier D200. The D80 ($880 - $990, body only) features a large 2.5-in. viewing LCD (up from 2 in. in the older D70), along with the image processing capabilities of more expensive Nikon models. It's got 11-area autofocus, customizable menus, the ability to do multiple exposures in one image, just 80 milliseconds of shutter lag, 3-frames-per-second continuous shooting, 0.18-sec. power-up time and ISO settings from 100 (shooting in bright light) to 1600 (low light).