Hi all. Name's Chris and I just discovered I've posted on this site before (news to me, I can't even remember coming here before?). Anyway, I thought I might as well say high and drop the usual 'make my decision for me' based question which, as I understand it, is standard protocol for any newbie joining any forum anywhere since the nets began.

So, I walked into a Jessops the other day and came out having decided to buy the A300. Brilliant, easy and from what I've read not a bad choice. Then, AFTER making my choice, I bought a load of photo mags and started to wade through the vast array of equipment, and followed the breadcrumbs to the net, where I saw more cameras than I ever knew existed. To cut this tedious story short(ish), I saw the D80. It kept popping up, and so back to jessops went I to hold it. I held it, I played with the menus (not really knowing what I was doing) and fell in love. The A300 suddenly feels dinky in my hands and my fingers just don't 'fit' on it, and in all fairness I didn't really know what I was doing with that when I was fiddling with it either. The D80 feels like it was made for me. I suddenly don't need swivelling live view, no matter how much the nice man in the shop kept raving on about it and showing me sony propaganda brochures. I never really used it on my old camera anyway.

There's just one more niggling issue I have before I take the plunge. The nice man told me Nikon doesn't need a VR lens. He seemed to know what he was talking about most of the time, but I could have sworn Nikon and Canon are both well known for only putting 'anti-shake' features on their most expensive bodies. On a separate note, I keep hearing about how anti-shake in a lens is better. If this is so, why only put this feature in your most expensive camera bodies?

Anyway, after all that and in case you missed it my question is, does the D80 have some kind of anti shake feature? If not, then why wouldn't it benefit greatly from a VR lens in the same way I've heard people say a D60 does, for example?

If you got this far, well done. Seriously, I can go on and on and...

Cheers