Buying a SLR/n a mistake?

I've finished a few jobs this week with the camera, and for the most part I'm very pleased. I shot a portrait via window light at iso 200 and at 100% I started to see some random color speckles in the deepest shadow areas. Nothing that shows up in prints though. The only mildly annoying thing is how the camera stops after 19 raw firms and writes and writes to the card. Of course I'm used to a D2h so I think this is more of a mental calibration on my part. Printed eight 17x26 inch prints for an ad agency presentation and the client was thrilled with the color and the sharpness. One of the frames was from an Olympus E-1 raw file that was interpolated up in CS2 and it seemed to hang together pretty well, too.

Has anyone used this camera with Microdrives? Is it pretty stable?

Overall its definitely a keeper. And if I were on the fence I would still go with it because of Kodak's Photo Desk software. They should be making this available left and right.

Thanks to all who replied.

Kirk

[Paul_Spatafora]

Buying the SLRn was one of the best mistakes I've made in a while. I just came back from Arizona with a harddrive full of wonderful 14mb files. If I could afford it, I'd buy another one of these mistakes in a heart beat. Kodak will support this camera until 2008 and who knows maybe longer.

The dymanic range on this camera, I feel, almost equals film and from 200-400 noise is a 200% magnification concern. OH MY GOD!! Also, I found you got to have the best glass your wallet can afford.

Paul