Just about everyone these days has a digital camera, they all know how to point it and press the button to take a shot. Not everyone (infact very few) know how to take a decent photograph above the usual holiday, pets, family shots - and thats fine, and thats what most digital cameras are about, and they do it very well.

One of the major benefits of SLR's is the quality changeable lenses... more

Now those of us that take photography seriously, whether for business or pleasure, know theres a lot more to it than 'point and click'. Those of us used to different types of film, different shutter speeds, aperture, flash settings, darkroom techniques etc need a Digital SLR Camera. Taking the modern advantages of comsumer digital cameras and giving the speed, lense options and benefits of SLR photography gives us the new wave of Digital SLR Cameras.

When they first appeared they were horrendously expensive (some still are) but they are coming down in price, and you can now get very well specc'd cameras at 'consumer' prices.

Perhaps your making a transition from 35mm? (remember those lenses from your canon 35mm SLR will probably fit a nice new Canon digital slr...)