I have the first generation Digital Rebel and it should be good enough for a very long time (really, unless you're making billboards anything over 6 megapixels starts to move into overkill territory). Slowly I've been getting some decent lenses.

Since I prefer landscape and wildlife photography I'm loving my new 75-300mm lens.

Please share, Alex!

I miss having changable lenses. My old Minolta was so wonderful to toy around with. But, even my Digital Cannon (which is broken at the moment) has been wonderful to play with.

Cool, thanks for the clarification, Alex. That's kinda what I figured, but wondered if I was missing something else.

When looking for our current camera, I briefly considered an Olympus SLR that was relatively compact, as SLRs go. But seeing as it would be our only camera, and seeing as the brick-like qualities of our previous camera continually lead to us prefering to leave it at home, we decided that compact was the way to go. We compromised by getting one with a rather impressive 5x optical zoom, but still pocket sized.

Should that one last a while, and if I ever feel like spending the money for a secondary camera, I'll likely get an SLR, but as a primary camera, portability is priority 1.

Here are the keepers from a trip to the Oakland Zoo. I don't have them set up in a gallery though.

warthog
sunbear
meerkat
meerkat #2
meerkat #3
giraffes
crane
elephant
camel
bobcat
grooming monkeys
not grooming monkeys

KITTY!

Thanks! Great animal shots.

I love this one:





Now, who does this remind me of?

George and Laura?

:evil:

that ended up being our assessment, too. We were initially looking at the point and shoots that mimic some SLR traits (like the Canon S3 IS) but eventually decided we'd be better off getting a more portable one now for the obligatory holiday snaps and later get an actual DSLR.

With me it was the reverse. We had about a half-dozen small digital cameras and ended up never using them because neither Lani nor I have much interest in casual snapshots (I almost never take pictures of people, it just never occurs to me) so they'd just bounce around the house until they were lost. So eventually it was "why keep buying cheap small cameras we never use, I might as well just spend a couple thousand on a camera and lenses and at least I'll use it."

For me, photography is the closest thing to an "artistic" activity I have.

We have a family history of photo-taking- well, on my dad's side. Lots and lots of family photos. Birthdays, Christmas, Easter, holiday, school events, plays, dance recitals, band concerts, visiting relatives, you name it, my mom took a photo. It's really cool to have photos from prior generations, and in my fantasies I 1) have descendants and 2) they think it's neat to have photos from my generation. In my family, photos are mostly for the album.

I *want* to also take artsy shots. My uncle's travelling all over the world as a photographer (gets press invites to things, too) in his retirement and does amazing work. And now my brother's been out taking photos of canyons and arches and other such things. So now I want nifty shots for my walls, too.