Thanks for the answers.
Just a thought on the warranty issue. As mentioned, the Hatton Garden!! based supplier states that, here, I would have full US cover. You might check to see what your terms would be. BUT, remember, I have no knowledge of these folk. However, they did answer an e-mail question very quickly.
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Well, one will wait and see.
My son's D50 seems to be very good, and some suppliers are showing prices of $275 for the body. It sounds as though I should be buying that lens and at least at first, getting a D50 or 70.
What I would dearly like to do, is show my pics on the new Sony t/v, and although such a purchase is out of the question ( $3,600 for the 50" ) I'm tempted to ask the salesman if I can hook up a camera to one in the store. Despite working on broadcast quality T/V cameras, I know nothing of the nature of the output signals on SLRs. (Except that I gather that they offer NTSC / PAL) Is the direct connection capable of going up to Hi def levels?
LR