I agree with Teagz... they are awesome cameras!!!

I haven't had one issue with my 1000D and have had since Jan last year. It takes fantastic pictures and the settings are good fun to play with (but can all be easily reset - gotta love that Automatic setting!)

Even though it's a DSLR camera, when it's on one of automatic settings, it can very much be used as a 'point and shoot' camera...

I would TOTALLY recommend this camera...