Thank you for your advice, I am now leaning more towards the fuji, especially at the current price of 499. I dont usually use my camera for sport so speed is not really an issue. From my understanding the Fuji will give me better colour expecially for people photography. But I also take alot of landscape too. Do you know what the Fuji is like in terms for landscape? Does the megapixel difference really show (nikon 8meg vs fuji 6meg)? in terms of sharpness etc does the fuji's sensor match the nikons d80?