gnargnar...
yeah ... I already had a 300V (35mm)....
so I had two lenses from that...
its virtually technically identical to the 300V (the 300D)..
same specs n shit... just a few less options and its DIGITAL...
so I was pretty familiar to the 300D....
for image quality... im very happy so far, except for I have found that "purple fringing" is found around bright lights etc.
I also had quite bad problems with lens flares occuring at night time when using my 300mm lens on it...
other than that... I have seen NO problems with it YET.
Noise / grain in low light is very minimal... / non existant.
Good investment.
EXAMPLE OF PURPLE FRINGING -