"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
ups.com...

Without a doubt..... if the D80 was available immediatly... it would be
the
logical choice. Unfortunatly... it seems life has placed me once again
in a
position to heed my father's advise of "Son.... Buy Quality!"



FYI, my D200 had some bugs and required service. I plan to sell it when
I get the D80 because the D80 is really all I need and I'll take the
extra cash and buy a new Tokina 12-24.
You'll love the D200. It's awesome.

OKAY.... I'm a new owner of a Nikon D200. I decided to heed your advise
regarding new glass and also purchased a lens [ AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm
f3.5-4.5G IF ED]

It didn't break the bank.....

I haven't used it as yet..... just reading the huge manual that accompanies
it! :-)

It is an awesome camera. Thanks for the link to Nikonians. Now... is there
any way I can assign a macro to place the time and date to the photo from
the data? I understand it has programmable options..... but nobody can tell
me if time & date stamping is an option or programmable or can be achieved
in another manner.

I'll let you know how it performs in a few days..... I have mega programs to
load up right now to my HP zd8000 laptop.

CM