Hrrm, so I've been here what a couple weeks now and just noticed this thread. Well, I'm from Sacramento, CA. I started getting more interested in photography when I bought my first SLR a Canon EOS 1000F/N (still have) the European equivilent of a Canon Rebel SII while in port in Hong Kong in the early 90's while in the US Navy.

Around 2002 I was given a digital P&S for Christmas and kind of fell away from film and the SLR. Recently got interested in photography again and after deciding the pics from my digital (HP photosmart 812) were really quite bad (noisy) I started looking at DSLR's and found this site. So here I am and as of last weekend with a Canon XSi + kit lens and 75-300 EF added on.