I'm 19 years old and a junior at Clemson University majoring in landscape architecture. Since January of this year, I have really been getting into photography. I first bought a Nikon D40. A friend of mine who got laid off from Circuit City traded me a broken Canon 40D for my rarely used PS3. $200 dollars later I had a $1300 camera for roughly $600. I love it! I might still be partial to Nikon but I just can't afford a D300, the 40D's competition.