any camera guru's here

[Ward P]

You couldn't go wrong with the Canon550D

I have a Canon 300D - that's the original 8year old SLR 6.3meg
I went to upgrade it last year but on doing a side by comparison found it to be the same as the newest(then) Canon 550D.
So I bought a new lens instead.

Don't get into the megagpixel debate. Professional photographers that I know(newspaper) don't bother to shoot max. and with only 6.3meg I can blow up to A3 perfectly. (but I do upsize and resample thru photoshop for large prints)

Having said that, my old Canon300D body is starting to get sticky buttons now, has been dropped a couple of times, and the 550 has a few more features, and a bigger screen, so It'd be a good update. But I'll probably go the 5D (for wank value) and because I can write if off against the business.

But as Skidmarx said: It's all in the lens.

Spend the money on the glass!!