The Canon Rebels are outstanding SLRs for the "point and press" photographer....choose the lens for the situation--wide or tele...set the dial on the automatic setting you want--outdoor, indoor, portrait etc, frame your shot and you'll get VERY good results every time. But you can't control things like depth of field and stop action without taking 5 minutes to go through all the menu changes to get into TV or AV mode...and by then the moose has moved on and all you're gonna see in your viewfinder is his butt!

So I'm looking for a camera that'll let ME decide my exposure values, and it sounds like you are too. Thanks for suggesting I look at the Nikon D90...I'll take a look.