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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wildmoreway" data-source="post: 1845740" data-attributes="member: 50189">You will find most of the more recent plastic bodied DSLRS to be surprisingly robust and that this will often survive a 6' drop on to concrete I know this  as I have done this with cheaper cameras than the D300, the reality now is that there are DSLRS costing around £500 that will give a D2X a run for its money and probably deliver equal or better pictures if used by a professional, much of this is down to the march of technology, the reality is that a modern camera something costing just over £1,000 like the D300 will greatly surpass the D2X in almost every area, frustrating for someone who paid £5,000 ir so for a D2Xa few years ago but a fact of life nonetheless, this does not mean that the D2X.s successor is not a superior camera to the D300, but for the average user the savings may well be the difference between owning a DSLR or being stuck with a coolpix P6000 superzoom as a certain person's two gallery pictures appear to have been taken with. :-O:-OAs for the "cheap" Sigma lenses, there appear to be plenty of excellent shots that have been taken by Sigma and other "cheap" lenses.SW</blockquote>