Right now, I'm slogging along with a prosumer camera. My buying choices for a DSLR have come down to a handful but it's a tough decision. I've been an Olympus fan ever since I traded in a Minolta MD-11 for an Olympus OM-1. So, I wanted to stick with that brand, despite the incompatibility of lens sets between the older film and new digitals from them. However; The E-Volt 300 seems to have some drawbacks in terms of noise suppression. But, it does have the vibration mechanism for dust control. After having used many CCD cameras (scientific) with windowed CCDs and knowing the dust issues they have, this would seem to be a major plus. I would really rather not have to rely on software image manipulation to get rid of "motes." The E1 IMO, is lacking simply because it only has 5 megapixels versus cameras in it's price range with 6-8. Lastly; My best choice would seem to be to deviate from Olympus or wait for them to release a new version of the E1 with a larger pixel count. I assume it won't be far off. My "deviation" camera would be either a Canon 20D or the new 350 and I'm leaning toward the 350 for cost reasons. -Rich