Have you got any experience with taking pictures and have you got some grasp of the basics of photography (aperture, shutter-speeds, light etc)? If "no", then you might want to choose something else than one of the tempting advanced digital cameras like Nikon D80 and Canon EOS (the one with interchangable lenses), since you wont be able to use all its potential. Not that it's very hard to learn the basics, but if you're new to photography an advanced camera of the more automatic kind (don't ask me which models, I stopped being up to date a while ago) might be better.