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Best digital cameras for professional photography?

Best cameras to take professional looking pictures? I have a nikon D40, I love it, but I am looking for something else.

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1. There are several top-of-the-line Nikons and Canons that professionals prefer to use. It's not the camera that is professional...it is the person using it.
2. Your Nikon D40 is more than capable of producing pro quality images. It won't matter if you upgrade or not, if you're clueless about what goes into a professional quality image you won't get it. You can have the Nikon D3x (bad as* camera I must say) but unless you know what you're doing behind the lens, it will be little more than a door stop to you. Start learning how to shoot properly instead of possibly wasting money on an upgrade you don't need. Onnce you get the basics down a bit more you will start seeing better results and more professional quality shots. It starts with you, not the camera. EDIT: Whomever the troll is that feels the need to thumbs down EVERY answer of mine needs to grow up and back the hell off.
3. Well, in an effort to be the first person to actually answer your question with something other than 'your camera doesn't matter dogg!!!! Buy a cell phone and use THAT camera to b a real pro!!!!" A good next step up would be either a D5000 or a D90. The camera won't make you a better photographer, but obviously, if every camera took pictures exactly the same, they wouldn't make cameras that cost $6,000. The D40's metering issues bug the snot out of me. The D5000 and D90 fix this issue. Both cameras have 3 image exposure bracketing, live view modes, and a crappy HD movie mode which you should never use. The D5000 has a variangle LCD screen that pops out and flips all over the place, like Spiderman. It also has a 'quiet mode' that makes it possibly the quietest DSLR in existence. The quiet mode and the live view variangle screen make it great for candid street photography, if you're into that. Your D40 lenses will work on them, also, as they're both DX cameras.. But its size makes the D40 a camera to keep regardless. The thing's so small and convenient, if you do upgrade, don't sell it. You'll regret it later. No matter how much expensive equipment I get, my D40 always goes everywhere with me.
4. It's not the camera, it the person using it. A camera is just a tool - there are expensive ones and cheap ones but they basically all do the same thing. I show people my pics and I always get, "Wow, you must have a really expensive camera.." I tell them, "Isn't that like going to your house, eating a great meal, and me saying 'wow, you must have a really expensive stove..'" Think about this, if you gave Ansel Adams a $50 camera, and gave me a $50,000 one, I'm willing to bet he would come up with the better image. Make sense? A better camera doesn't make you automatically a better photographer just as Photoshop doesn't turn you into a Michelangelo. Learn to use what you have creatively and really use every feature and option on your equipment til you know it inside and out - that way when you DO upgrade, you'll already have a solid foundation.