Engadget's relaunch giveaways: a Nikon D80 DSLR with lens!

Photographers in the house, we've got a winner for last week's S7c! Bryan W is taking home the prize! Thanks to everyone for joining our Flickr group, we hope you'll have fun sharing gadgety photos with your fellow Engadget readers. This week, however, we're going all out. We've got Nikon's new flagship consumer DSLR to give away, the D80; here's the low down to whet your appetite:

• 10.2 megapixel CCD sensor
• 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor lens (approx 7.5x zoom)
• 2.5-inch LCD
• 1600 ISO (with auto ISO mode)
• 11 area autofocus, auto white balance
  
• Continuous 3fps shooting
• In-camera red-eye correction, etc.

All in all this kit would set somebody back $1,300, so we're gonna pull out all the stops on this one. This week it's going to be a photo contest, and to take home the D80 we want you to send us your finest, most creative photo of (or making use of) electronics or consumer tech. We know it's open ended, but we want you to do something that stands out -- the key is to grab our attention and stand out from the crowd. (In other words, just having a dramatically lit, well framed shot of an iPod probably won't win you this camera.) Slightly photoshopped images are ok, but the source image(s) must be yours, but judging will be about the merit of the photo, and not of your ability to manipulate it. Submit your entry to us at contest at engadget dawt com with D80 in the subject (please, no larger than 10MB or it will bounce). Have your entries in by Sunday, the 29th to be eligible. Engadget's editors will select the photo that takes home the prize. As always, please mind the rules!

• You may enter other Engadget contests, however...
• You may only enter this contest once; if you enter more than once on this particular contest post you'll be automatically disqualified and barred from all future giveaways. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You may enter future Engadget relaunch giveaway contests though!
  
• You can only win once. (If you win and then try to go for a second prize during our relaunch giveaways, you'll be automatically disqualified, etc.)
• This contest is open to the US only, sorry!
• Be prepared to prove the photo is yours!
• You will be shipped your D80 in a few weeks when all our contests are over. Thanks for your patience!

Good luck, and be sure you've entered our other contests, as well!

• Fourth shot at a Zune
• Win a VidaBox SLIM for the best Halloween costume!
• Seriously, you can win a Philips 42PF9631D 42-inch plasma
• Win yourself a Slingbox PRO
• Xbox 360 Premium Pack here!
• HD has a Helios X3000

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2006 10:58AM]

me too please

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 18th 2006 8:36AM]

I want this

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 18th 2006 2:09AM]

D80 for me!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2006 7:13PM]

Nice contest!

[TheAppleGuy Posted Oct 17th 2006 8:34PM]

Its me

[quotaPop Posted Oct 16th 2006 5:57PM]

Seriously Engadget, way to branch out internationaly. I'm sick and tired of all these US only contests, you do have other readers out there!

Thanks for running contests anyways...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2006 8:33AM]

I like the camera, count me in

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 18th 2006 10:22AM]

Count me in too. Would love one of these. They're the best.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 7:59PM]

Maybe there's a more Canada-centric gadget blog we can turn to... you know.. one who may acknowledge the existance of readers beyond their own borders once in a while.

sheesh.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:01PM]

SHOOOooOOOTTTTIEEEEEE

[derekmel75 Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:03PM]

I like! I'm in!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 8:26PM]

Can international users send the prize to someone in the US? (As a gift or to get it relayed)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 8:34PM]

i need this for flickr. the photo site.... you know... for photos??? and i dont have camera...

[Xyzzy Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:13PM]

Nethack on a 24" LCD screen. It doesn't get much geekier than that! :)

http://www.fezam.com/high-res-nethack.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:27PM]

gimmmme!

[Iggy Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:18PM]

Seriously there are more people in the world than just you silly yanks. And it does not help Canadian relations with this whole no Canada being include. Canada is after the closest thing to the 51st state of America.

Iggy :P

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:21PM]

Count me in.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2006 10:49AM]

Can you add in photoshop work to your picture?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:20PM]

Saweett cam.

[ryan Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:20PM]

You guys seem to think we're selectively excluding our non-US readers, but that's not actually the way it is! We do realize we have a vast foreign readership, but as is often the case, unfortunately Nikon wouldn't ship this device out of the country -- so please know it's not us trying to exclude anyone. We value your readership and participation, and we are in fact giving away Xbox 360s (five of them) to anyone, anywhere.

Also, please be sure you submit photos the proper way -- we will not be judging photos submitted here in comments. Thanks!

Best, Ryan

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:31PM]

why not just say that if you live outside US you will have to pay for shipping?

[ryan Posted Oct 16th 2006 7:37PM]

It's not that simple. First, that assumes that these companies want to ship these products outside of the US -- which is typically outside of the jurisdiction of the marketing departments who helped get the units together for the giveaways. Even if they weren't stepping on toes within countries, forcing our winners to pay shiping and customs feeds (which on a device like this would be hundreds of US dollars) is unreasonable. It's just an unfortunate reality that not all of our contests can be international!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2006 8:31AM]

yea i won. thanks engadget. thanks ryan block.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2006 3:00PM]

Ryan could you give me the link or address so I can enter this contest.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2006 1:55PM]

Ryan, I submitted a photo that had Windows XP as the subject of the photograph. Would you or your staff consider that an "electronics or consumer tech" photograph? If not, can I submit another entry without breaking the rules?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:31PM]

US only again... what a surprise...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:23PM]

dude, Engadget Rulez

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:24PM]

Damn you Nikon for not shipping this out of US.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 8:23PM]

cool.

[The1 Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:24PM]

Hands down this is the best Camera out there. I love mine.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:26PM]

Sunsets in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1176/dsc01355kj4.jpg

I do live in the U.S, just traveled there for the summer

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:29PM]

This iS a good Camera

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:26PM]

I'm in. Hope I win ...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:50PM]

Sah-weet!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:39PM]

I am in

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:37PM]

Screw the Canadians.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:38PM]

9/11 Tribute Shot (5 Years Later)
Shot at Brooklyn Heights Promenade on 9/11/06.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39792450/

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 7:30PM]

I can really use a digital and get rid of my Canon EOS

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:40PM]

please engadget? ive been good all year! ~sal~

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:44PM]

So no architecture pics? I have some great barcelona pics, not many of technology...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:46PM]

Count me in.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:46PM]

Man, you guys just rocks!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2006 10:28AM]

never had a digital cam yet ... this looks great

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:47PM]

Let me win darnit!

[Fuzz Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:47PM]

Put me down as another bitching Canadian.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:49PM]

Hopefully i win!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:49PM]

Me love D80

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:50PM]

Awesome camera!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 6:52PM]

Wishful thinking...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2006 8:19PM]

Another boo from another Canadian.

Come-on engadget some of your most loyal readers are up here, speaking of which when is the west coast canada meet up?