Cameras and Equipment
Once you have the skill to elicit great photos from one camera, you can get them from any camera. It's like pianos: a Steinway may be better piano than an upright at the pub, but if you can't play a piano, you won't get decent music out of it. Anyone can bang away at a piano and anyone can press the shutter on a camera, but it takes an artist to get decent results from either one. The sad part is how many well-meaning people think photography is as simple as buying a camera.
Cameras don't take pictures, photographers do. A cameras is just another artist's tool.
Just out of interest I currently use a Nikon D5000 and a Nikon D70s plus various lenses.
Nikon D5000 Nikon D70s
I have recently purchased a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8 Compact (also known as the DMC-ZS5 in the USA)This is a great little camera that allows me to always be able to 'catch that image'. For a small camera it is superb with its LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR Lens and 12.1 mp sensor. Although it cannot capture RAW the JPEG images are superb.
Lumix DMC-TZ8
Many of my earlier images were shot on film using a Nikon F3, Nikon F5 35mm and a Mamiya RZ67 and Hasselblad medium format. The latter not being mine.
Mamiya RZ67