I purchased a Canon Digital Rebel in October. This was my second foray into the Digital SLR catergory of cameras. I had earlier purchased an Olympus C-2100 UZ. This was a nice TTL (Through The Lens) camera with a fix 10x optical stablized lens. Ok, yes I know it's not a true SLR, but it was thrown in this category by the reviewers. This camera, like my other Olympus cameras, took great pictures.The TTL on the 2100 is an LCD viewfinder instead of a reflection off a pentaprism or pentamirror like a normal 35MM film-body camera. Don't get me wrong, the Olympus had some great features. A 10X stablized optical zoom will pretty much level out any mis-givings you have about a purchase. I liked being able to pick the zit's off an Ant's butt at a 100 feet. However, the LCD viewfinder was just not quite good enough for me. So I sold the 2100 and purchased the Digital Rebel.
The best thing about the Drebel (as the forums call it) is the ability to swap the lenses. All of the Canon EF and EF-S lenses will work the Drebel. This leaves a lot of room for upgrades in teh future. I can see my wife had a good shopping list for upcoming occasions. It also means that I have to learn more about photography. So googling I went. There are quite a number of good Photography resources on the web. Here are some that I visit most often
Good tutorials.
Luminous-Landscape
Good camera reviews in general. The forums are an excellent source of information
DPreview
Good information on the Canon EOS Systems (The Digital Rebel is a Type A Camera body in the EOS group)
Photonotes
I probably could spend the entire month just reading camera stuff, but somehow I don't think my wife would approve. :) Hopefully some of the information in these sites can help me when Ephotocafe gets up and running.