Spinner,
I don't know what camera you have been using...the D80 is a 10 megapixel camera. It will let you "zoom" in close to things in the photo without the object becoming distorted when you are viewing images on your computer. In a "scenery" picture, the detail is better, again depending on how you view the image. It came with a nice macro-telephoto lens, that gives me the ability to do an awful lot of different types of photos without changing lenses. It has a nice macro feature for doing very close up shots, and everything from full automatic modes to full manual modes, it even has a feature that lets you do very rapid exposures by holding down the shutter release, etc...I hope that helps...