Hi Folks,

My fren

Check this link. I dont know much about cameras.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cid=enahome&cs=04&dgc=ir&l=en&lid=dur&sku=A3696972

I started from good old Canon XTi about 3 years ago. Now I own Canon 5D Mark II. The latest entry level DSLR for Canon is T2i which is about $200 expensive than T1i and has better HD video shotting capabilities. T1i is a good entry level DSLR which also has HD video shooting capabilities. For beginners like you, I would say this camera is good enough if the budget is right for you.

It's a nice and high specification camera but not very flexible optically. optical zoom lens included is 18-55mm zoom lens which is suitable for normal photography. If you want to take a picture of distant objects and  pictures under high light intensity you need higher zoom lens like 17-200mm or telephoto lens. So it depends how u want to use it. e.g. If you want to go Nepal and want to take a pictures of birds it's definetily not suitable.

Although it has 15.1MP it's not CCD, it's CMOS sensor. CMOS need more processing power.

 

I am happy with may Nikon D3000 and if not a real professional you may not able to utilize it fully. The reason I bought it, once we were in Nepal and wanted to give our simple digital camera and they asked us is it DSLR?