One thing you'll want to consider is the viewfinder. Or, how you get to frame up your shots. Our cameras have lost their viewfinders! Their all gone, replaced with LCD screens and LCD eye finders. Everybody holds their camera out in front of them and tries to line up a shot. Trouble is, its always washed out and everything is so small extended from your eye like that. If you want to get better photographs, you have to compose better pictures. A DSLR has a real live 'Through The Lens" viewfinder. When you look in there it's like looking at your image on a wall sized plasma screen. You're actually looking through the taking lens to compose the shot.