Mary,
It sounds like you have a couple of pretty nice cameras. The Canon EOS 2000 is a very capable film camera with all you would need to produce quality images.
I am not as familiar with digital cameras, I still shoot film exclusively. The Sony FD83 seems not to be heavy on the mega pixels, my research indicated that when you melt down all that spin talk you were getting about one mega pixel.
One thing to watch out for with the Sony digital, it indicates a 3x optical zoom lens. This would translate to about a 28-70 zoom lens on a standard SLR film camera. For portrait work I would make sure you stay out at the far end of your zoom, the equivalant of the 70mm. Any where the equivalent of a 28-40mm will begin to produce a fish eye effect. This is of course assuming that I understand the way these things translate.
Think about adding a tripod to your list of must haves. You can actually pick one up at your Wal-Mart camera department fairly cheaply.
Go burn some film (pixels),
Mike
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