Got myself a Canon 500d, Brilliant camera and can still shoot in full auto and get the basic shots while your learning. Then when you know a bit more go to manual and really start to take photos. Good thing about the Canon that made me buy it was the 1080p video, its good but you always get the auto focus noise if you use it on your videos and best to use manual. Went on the bay and got mine with the normal lense and the 70-250mm lense for under £500. cant really fault it and looking at accessories for it now to upgrade the camera.