I owned a fairly simple 35mm SLR (a Canon EOS Rebel X, a nice one) for years and loved to take pictures with it. Then three years ago we bought an Olympus C-3000 to take pictures for my wife's jewelry website. I can't go back to film. Digital is just too convenient. With the 128 MB card installed in that camera, I can take 169 pictures at 2048x1536 resolution--good enough to make 8x10 prints if I wanted. For more normal 4x6 prints I could take over 700.
The convenience is fantastic. The only thing I don't like about it is the long delay between pushing the button and the picture actually taking, which makes getting action shots virtually impossible. Maybe the newer ones have fixed that.
BTW, the Rebel X has been sitting quietly in my closet for at least five years now. I wonder if it still works?
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Fugi has a higher end model (About $1500.00) it can take up to 4 photo's per second, shutter speed up to 1-4,000 per second.
I have a Fuji 6.1 mp I bought 2 years ago even my wife can handle it. The color is unbelievable which is why some don't like it.