This is exactly, what I found out, what You write Nick !
Couldn`t have written it better.
I also looked often into
www.imaging-resource.com
Also with the lenses You'r absolute right.
I shoot some hundred test-pix with the dozen cams in 2009.
And over a dozen test-vids with different cameras and camcorders in 2009.
Did You use the FujiFilm S3 and the Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3X's with the kit-lenses/zooms ?
Or with some 50 mm, 35 mm ?
Would be very nice to find a dsrl with a good kit-lens, but this is obviously probable only a nice dream, unfortunate....
In my hometown are a Canon 1000 D and a Sony alpha with around 14 MPix rather cheap at the moment.
I have them in my mind, but did not dare to buy one of 'em up to now.
Cheers