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:
I've been using UFRaw, a GIMP plugin to work with the RAW shot of the moon. The images was quite under-exposed to start with, but still it gives me very many colours in the sky:
It uses dcraw that I talked about earlier. Do you have any experience with dcraw or utillities based on it you'd like to share? I'll spend some time learning this tool so that I can get better results than this redish sky.
