Everyone seems
to wonder if Shakespeare had syphilis. He may have been given bath treatments to kill the bacteria and have had to inhale quicksilver to "cure" him and may have died from the treatment, which caused him to loose hair, shiver and become asocial. Or, people may be exagerating. You read the evidence and figure it out.
Tomorrow I'll be at Canon's authorized repair-shop to have them look at my 20D. It's got what I think is hot pixels even at indoors shooting at 1 second shots. Not good. But, being nervous that my camera will be gone without replacement for a while, I am reading up on the subject. There are quite a number of programs and articles on reducing noise in digital images.
Oh, and thank you Alan Briot for your EOS 300D diary. It's a great read, and ...
According to DPReview: the P-2000 is a very well-designed, very sophisticated and very desirable addition to any serious digital photographer's gadget bag. My conclusion from reading their review: drool 
Good luck to Epson with the RAW support. My 20D is already supported, but it seems they have just a little further to go.
Oh, and merry christmas to everyone coming by my blog 
At the moment I use Canon's EOSViewer Utillity and The GIMP for RAW handelling. While I need to figure out how to use The GIMP without getting heaps of artefacts/noise, I get quite often strange artefacts that are white curves that follow the light within a picture. To give an example, look at this selfportrait (not the best portrait as my eyes are crossing). The first picture is using The GIMP:
The second one is using Canon's software and then cropping it slightly in Photoshop:
