Lens I included the d series which is worth the few extra dollars. Great thing about the pentax cameras is you can go to old pond shops for lenses. Ive divided it up into groups. HTM I have had a Pentax digital camera and a nikon coolpix and each lasted less than 1 year and had a lot of issues. This camera is excellent and I highly recommend it. Its not super expensive but its high quality and runs on a charger instead of batteries. 145 The PowerShot is close behind, though, and much cheaper. Nikon SLR but cant recall the name of it. At the bottom, there is a chart and the camera most recommended is the canon eos Elan 7. Im assuming youre looking at a DSLR with interchangeable lenses and room to grow. Heres a few choices for you. Any of these brands and models will give you the opportunity to take excellent photos.

Actually, the DSLR goes for less than the G9. Any SLR camera that has come out in the last 3 or 4 years would actually be a good start. They all have good and bad points. They all have interchangable lenses. Canon and Nikon frequently swap 1st and 2nd spot in sales. They both have a good range of lenses available to them. Pentax cameras take the old K mount lenses. The others have good points too.

But you are the one that needs to walk into a camera store and pick a few up and see what if feels like. See if the menus make sense to you. They are all set up different. Canon and had to use a Nikon a while back.