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Its a first SLR for me. The market is definitely confusing out there.
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Dianne,
Good luck, I think you'll be pleased. The market is confusing right now. The digital SLR market seems to have reached a plateau and the so called point and shoot cameras are becoming more and more professional in their feature set.
And for those experiencing Pixel envy we have the just announced Pentax digital 645.
Pentax has issued a press release detailing future digital SLR products it intends to exhibit at PMA. This includes three new DA* (Star) digital-only lenses, a 35 mm F2.8 Macro Limited lens and the long announced, long awaited 645 Digital medium-format camera.
I owned a Pentax 645 in it's antique form. In the old film format (remember film?) these medium and large format cameras used a much larger negative than the 35mm cameras and produced a much superior image because of their brute size. This new digital version will be utilizing the Kodak produced 31mp sensor.
This is of course an over kill for our purposes but interesting to see how photography is evolving on the high end. If you're interested you can read more about the Pentax 645 release here:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07...xatpma2007.asp