It's sad, but I ended up breaking my camera on my last roadtrip up to southern Washington. I put my camera in the car with my 50-500mm lens on and the flash, and the weight caused the flash to tear the top of my camera off... (Just the hotshoe).
I'll be buying a Pentax K20D to replace my *ist D, and I'll keep my lens set. It really sucks though, it set me back, because I was planning on spending the money on some new videocards (4870x2's) and school. Oh well for the videocards I guess. I've got a second job so I'll be earning up money a lot quicker. One full time and one part time, I guess it goes with the territory of not having a degr