oh man now i'll have to look for a good lens as well.
Hopefully will get from the same shop i guess.
Let me have a tour to the market.Then i'll be in any position to confirm anything.
I was reading about olympus that it uses four thirds lenses(it's own system),plus the image stabilization.Well used a compact olympus simple digital camera.And i got impressed with digital stabilization.Might be because of 4fps you were talking about.
Will see canon for sure.The brand name is quiet attractive.
Well about lenses... hmmmm. let me try to do it in short as feeling way too tired and need to get back to one datasheet.
If you are serious with photography you will need atleast 5 lenses ( dont worry not right now, but slowly)
1. one high zoom lens for taking photographs of birds, fighter crafts, far away objects etc.
2. one wide angle lens for taking nature photographs
3. One wide aperture one for portrait photography
4. One small one you will get with the body anyway
5. One macro lens for macro photography ( optional but handy)
As you might be aware by now, its the lenses which cost more than the body. People usually go up to 12 /13 lenses over the time period and for specific photography, like sports etc
Canon is the best one when it comes to lenses and thats one of the reason why you see all sports photographers using canon body with huge white color lenses.
About image stabilization its a common feature and all cameras come with that. About multiple face detection and all, those are for girls ;-) or should i say for people who do matchbox photography.
Once you start clicking you may start with auto-focus, but mark my words you will start to go to manual focusing within 3 months and will love the creativity it brings with it
Again with time you will move to RAW mode also rather than any other form of compression.
one more last thing is about fps, that stands for frames per second, meaning how many photos you can click in a second, as i said in my earlier post you wont need this feature unless you are doing sports or nature photography. This is again a marketing jargon like mega pixels. both does not stand for photo quality anyway but most of the people are convinced. To burst the myth the number of frames depends upon many factors and one most important is the speed of the flash chip you gonna use.
Hope i cleared all doubts. Keep them coming if you still have more....