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Not the best price I believe. You may buy it cheaper on Amazon or anywhere else.

Also it is $670 -$70 = $600

also, get the XSi instead. this is a dumbed down SLR.

The XS kit is $600 at Amazon without a rebate, and no tax. This is not a deal. Besides, as #3 points out, the XSi is a much better camera for barely more money ($660 at Amazon)

more slrs for retards that should be using a pinhole camera. oh look at me with my slr and big lens while i dont know htf to use it.

#5, that time of the month?

yeah, #5 is a lonely photographer who finds that love isn't spouting exposure rates at people.

I'm saving for the 5D Mark II .... that thing is going to be a beauty.

#5 speaks the TRUTH! FACT!

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SLR cameras are great. Even if you dont know all the settings just use it as a regular point and shoot camera. I dont know how, but this things have magic in them. The pictures come out soooo good. I just bought a Nikon D40 with kit lens and a zoom lens. Pictures are wonderful. I am new to SLR cameras.

The magic is the larger sensor. The individual "photon buckets" that make up the pixels are larger, which means that an individual stray electron or two (due to Zener thermal noise in the silicon) makes less of an impact on the gathered signal. Larger sensors are more expensive to make (by quite a lot), and they require more glass in front of them to bring a flat, clear image onto them. Neither the price nor the size allows pocket cameras to produce these clearer, lower-noise images.

The XSi is better, not because of the mega-pixels, but because of countless other features. The XS is trying to pawn off their older sensor stock.

As #12 mentioned, the APS-C sized sensor is 10x the area than a 1/1.8" sensor and 20x the area than a 1/2.5" sensor. That's why dSLRs have much better sensitivity in low light, among other things, than PnS -- even with slower lenses (although only that much better with fast lenses).

I have constant f/2.8 lenses (both wide and tele) on my Pentax K20D. Makes all the difference when shooting at night.

#5 Who cares? I have an XSi. I so much as point it at a woman, she undresses.

Sigma DP2 will be out soon - compact with slr sensor. fixed lens.

Several outlets are selling EOS 30D's for $699, body only, no tax, and free shipping. Mine arrived yesterday. Compared to the Rebels, this thing is built like a tank. If you don't mind having a soon-to-be-discontinued model, you'd be crazy not to consider it.

yeah i go with xsi