[gchappel]

What is your budget?
Do you want to get into the details of photography or do you want to let the camera take great pictures.
Both canon and nikon have great systems- and sony may be coming on strong as well.
In my opinion- and I am a nikon system user with a d70, d2h, d2x, d2xs- nikon has slightly better color and detail rendition. Nikon also has a slightly better flash system.
Canon has better noise at high iso.
Both have great glass.
You can't go wrong with either.
Give us a budget, and we can help you overspend it
gary