thanks guys, the info is good..my husband wants to be the canon rebel but it's HUGe and a 1000 bucks. Since we'll be traveling for 3 months, backpacking thru Europe, i told him i'd rather get a smaller, cheaper camera ....just in case we lose it or b/c of space...but it looks like the rebel is getting loads of great reviews...
i'm forwarding him some of this info for reviewing...