Please help me make the right camera choice

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Originally Posted by Matblack

Please bear in mind that if I thought you were doing the right thing going dSLR I would be supporting you all the way, I am not jelous, I have no reason for persuading you not to buy one other than I feel it will not give you what you want or it will but at a huge investment of time, money and compromise.

A refreshing attitude. One of the things that began to put me off photography forums was the blind recommendation to all and sundry that they should buy an SLR even when they posted pretty much describing a compact to a T as their wish list.

An SLR is not for everyone. They're big, expensive, harder to use, can be harder to get good results from, they're heavy, they're hugely impractical.

But if you have a desire for the best and can live with that compromise then they make a great tool.

Totally random comparison - pizza. A proper fresh dough stonebaked pizza with nice cheese and good tomato sauce will always taste a thousand times better than a frozen oven cooked pizza. Most people will get by fine with frozen pizza and it would massively impractical to have your own stone pizza oven unless you really really loved making pizza. Actually, that's a crap comparison, all ive done is made myself hungry.