Ok. It's time to buy MY OWN camera. I've always used my father's ones and now I FEEL the need of a personal camera. Actually I'm using the Minolta Dimage7. I love that camera, maybe only because I've captured with it a lot of shots I really love. Btw... I love the digital viewfinder, but it's too grainy.. I love the manual focus, but it's really difficult to understand when the subject is perfectly on focus.. I love the resulting images, but the noise is really high in some situations.. I'd like to have times shorter than 1/2000 and more steps for the aperture.. After reading some reviews on "Digital Photography Review" I think my camera will be the Minolta Dimage A1.. If you want to see the review: Minolta A1 Ok.. Minolta A1 has noise too (obviously less than Dimage7) but it has improvements on all the points in the list above and it mounts an antishake system.. One of the best CCD is on the Canon 10D but (I know.. my pov is really questionable) i'd like to have a digital viewfinder and I hate the "1.6x" problem with the optics/CCD size.. What do you think?