I think I may have mentioned this before, but mine is a Minolta Maxium QTSI. It has been great for my first camera and wonderful for learning the basics on. It also seems to be rather durable because Ive dropped it more times then I care to count. Now that I'm trying to advance I would like something new though. My camera is completely automatic other than the focus and its features are sort of limited. I think the XTSI is probably more of a versitile model and around the same price as the one I have.