Right Now I have a Compact Digital Canon Powershot G2. I got it when I became a father to take pictures of the baby. 5 months and 900 photos later I have found that I really love taking photos and it's something that i want to turn into more of a hobby. Keep in mind I have never taen a photography class (those are coming). and the reason why I am selling my Powershot G2 (and it takes really good pictures), is because there is not enough zoom. I started looking at the Konica Minolta Dimage z2, because of the 10X otical and the sports photo features, but by the time you buy memory cards and lithium batteries you can be at 700 bucks....At that point I looked at DSLR and the Digital Reble fell close to that range with the Kit price of 899 on the web....Pretty cool I thought.....Then I read the reviews the echoe what you said and that is while the Digital rebel is great...ultimately the Nikon and Canon D10 are more feature rich.

Primarily I am still taking pictures of my baby and as she gets ready to run I wanted a Point and shoot that would take pictures with mimum lag time. Cannon has some cool zoom lenses the one that comes with the kit, or the 28mm-105mm, but the lense can be over 300$ depending on where you go. so my dilema is Does theauto AF issue ultimately going to affect me......Will I get that much more by going to the D70...(the D10 is way out of the price range!

Your thoughts???