It is now official, Nikon have announced the new D80.

Nikon announces the D80 Digital SLR camera  

RRP: D80 Body only          £699.99

D80 + 18-70mm         £899.99

D80 +18-135mm         £949.99         

 Sales release date: September 2006 

Nikon UK is pleased to announce the introduction of the D80, a high performance digital SLR camera incorporating Nikon’s latest digital and photographic technologies.

I had a phonecall at 0715hrs this pleasant Sunday morning. "Are you sitiing down?" a voice enquired.

It was Nick, and the request was because, despite living in the centre of London, he was already at Grove Ferry, camera bag along for the ride and wanted to know what time I would be there??

The meeting held yesterday at Tyland Barn, the headquarters of the Kent Wildlife Trust, was fairly well attended and very productive in the eyes of most of those there.

Once the meeting was over though, the inevitable chatter and banter started and.......

The WildaboutKent website, in it's HTML form, has now topped the quarter of a million page load mark.

The daily page load number has also accellerated recently and now regularly tops the 1000/day mark. It looks like the move to a dynamic system and a new server is not a day too soon!

Many people ask how much it costs to join WildaboutKent. The answer, quite simply, is nothing. The only requirement is that you actively participate in the project. To do that, you don't even need to be a photographer. Help can be given in many ways which also include, but are not exclusive to photography.

Contributing information, especially as to where and when things are happening, can be invaluable.

If you are looking to buy images, please visit WildaboutPictures

Anyone can join, simply by joining in. That's all there is to it. If you want to submit images, you must be willing to allow charities the free use of the images you post in their publications. You will get credited with them.

Otherwise, you can help out in a number of ways like supplying information, or just keeping the forum lively.