Thanks for all your welcome messages. Two things (among many other good thing) that I like about the D80 is the body size, not to heavy but able to deliver good performance, and the ease of the control buttons. Of course progress continues in the form of other models (like the D7000) but using the D80 at the Botanic Garden recently reminded me how much I enjoyed this DSLR.
I must admit my thoughts of upgrading to D7000 is pretty much a "desire" rather than "a must"
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