<p>I'm looking to upgrade from my D80 to something better and newer for all around photography. My budget is in the $1,000 to $1,500 range for a body only. I'm looking to drop the D80 mostly due to the weak high ISO performance and poor resolution. I'm not sure that I need a ton more resolution but I do frequently find myself wishing I had more once I've cropped an image to 4:5 or tighter. I've mostly been looking at used in order to get a body with the better ergonomics and faster control that I would find on top of the line cameras that are out of that price range new. I have a preference for FX as all my lenses are already FX. Weight and complexity don't worry me as my favorite body right now is a F5 and the new digital body will likely share space in the bag with it on trips out.</p>
<p>I'm going to have to ask the body to cover a pretty wide range of tasks. Day to day family shots, landscape, planned portraits, and light action (animals at the zoo, festivals). I'm not planning to do any sports shots with it.</p>
<p>My biggest challenge in comparing bodies is that there are no good comparisons between different generations of camera, the D3 vs D800 for example, just those automated sites that only care about resolution.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
