canon 6 meg rebel.

single lens reflex

Any decent 35mm camera will cost between $300 - $400. You basically have a choice between Cannon and Nikkon. I myself have a Nikkon and i'm very pleased with it. I purchased two seperate lenses for it (They're not cheap) and a bunch of filters. Here's a decent Nikkon from Best Buy.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... uct&cmp=++

i looked into this one :
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... Id=6265043

also this one :

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... pe=product

i dont see the difference?

what would make other brands / models more /less expensive? whats the trade off ?

Judas, thats a nice camera you picked. Don't knock yourself out over the differences between all the different brands. All of them will do the trick and you'll get years out of the equipment. Good luck.

Depends on what you're going to use the camera for Judas - jsut to take pictures, or get artistic with it?

yup ... it ll be used for artistic type photography, not just taking family snap shots etc...

Then I'd say go with the Canon EOS Rebel...I have the 2000 version, had it for 3 coming on 4 years and it's worked beautifully.

The Minolta is a great slr , tom. I dont know about the Canon Rebel, so I wont comment about it, but the maxxum is a great series. ?For less than 200.00 you cant go wrong. Check Accesories and such as well. Any extra's that you want for sure? Are they included. The warranty isnt really an issue fexcept for the higher ticket items , I would think.

anyway let us know what you get.

can't go wrong with Cannon, my dad still has 1 thats over 20 yrs old and still can take great pics rock:

my dads got a Nikon...those things are very very awesome...it takes beautiful pictures...

I think whoever makes the lenses prolly makes the best cameras. That would be Nikon and Cannon, wouldnt it?

Buy Nikon not Minolta.

Camera doesn't take the pics,but who's behind it.