Thanks Syyd and Dendras S--I used to use a good ol' Canon AE-1--then I sort of lost interest in photography (developing costs, couldn't exert as much creativity even though I had several good lenses, etc.--and reserved it mostly for travel). Then I bought a Kodak DC280, fairly simple digicam. Wow--such fun, lots of possibilities with a 2x teleconverter and several macro lenses and lots of opportunity for post work. I loved photography again and have enjoyed the last 1 1/2 yrs. with it. I literally fell into a photography job based on the Kodak with lots of color and light correction (with one of our clients in the furniture industry), but had to have a camera capable of more resolution. Based on that I bought the Canon (though I lust for a digi SLR, but sure am not ready for one) after a lot of research. Love it so far, but it really has more creative potential than my SLR had--and more chances to screw up royally LOL. However, it has that neat 'delete'--right??? I'm working my way through both the manual and a supplementary book and lots of input from others and reading a LOT of tech web pages. I've made a G1 trials folder on my HD and can go back and read my Exif files to see what I did when I got a good shot--what I did when they failed. Its helping me a lot. Diane