Just had lunch with a good friend of mine. He got back last night from a trip to Italy and the Greek Isles. Shortly before the trip, he bought a Nikon D100 (already owned an N80) and the new Sigma 15-30 zoom to go with his 28-105 and 80-400 VR.
His experience was very mixed. In general, he really loved using the camera. He is kind of gadgety and this camera certainly accommodates his needs there. He really liked the ability to change ISO speeds frame by frame as his needs changed. Three big downsides: His first comment was that the 1.5 focal length multiplier was really a problem. He ended up using the Sigma 15-30 about 90% of the time. He really wants to go wider, but doesn't have many options. Next problem was that the matrix metering seemed to underexpose (I looked at all his pictures) quite often. Anytime there was any sky in the picture, it seemed to underexpose more than his N80. At least things weren't burned out, but boy, does he have some major photoshop work ahead of him. Almost as bad as scanning and fixing. Third big problem was that the camera is no longer working. The last day of his trip, he took it into a moist environment (didn't even get the camera wet, just quite humid) and now the electronics are haywire. Maybe it got a virus :)(big grin). So now he has to send it in for repair. I bring this up as a real world experience of someone using a DSLR - they are not the silver bullet to solve all our problems. Seems they solve a set of problems and create their own set. Just different - not a full blown replacement, I think. Bruce
