###### with that camera is starting to affect my homework.

That's a nice camera.

We've been wanting to get a DSLR for a while. It's just easier to learn with than a film camera because you can immediately look at what you shot. Plus, film gets expensive as shit.

I shoot only in digital. I have a 35mm pentax, but I like to shoot more than I like to pay for film and development. Going to the processor to take the film to get developed, filling out envelopes with the same information was a buzzkill.

I don't like developing film in a darkroom either.

Digital let me forego all that and left me see what settings and lighting were actually doing with the subject on the fly. My artistry and technical skills with a camera really grew with a DSLR.

DSLRs taught me the most, I'm the kind that learns best by doing and seeing.

I had an Olympus E-10 (still have--going to sell it and the gear/lenses soon). I was hurrying because I live close to the lake and I could see the dwindling light was going to produce a nice reddish sunset, and on my way out, I left the E-10 on the roof of my car. I drove a half a block and was driving down an incline when I noticed the camera wasn't there. I slammed on the breaks thinking "OH NO!" and the camera on my roof slid down the windshield, bounced on the car hood and tumbled on the concrete.

It fell in slow motion. I got out of the car thinking it had to be broke. Turned it on, and it worked just fine. Went tothe lake, missed the sunset, tooks some pics, went home and checked out the pics on the computer. The E-10 suffered a small dent in the plastic housing of the LCD. I had a bent UV filter ring (on the filter not the camera), but I never had any problems stemming from that incident. I never had any problems with that camera at all.

That is survive tham wicked fall has made me pretty much an Olympus customer for life.

If you like taking pictures beyone snapshots, I totally recomment a DSLR and absolutely reccommend Olympus DSLRs.