its not the camera that takes the pictures its the person behind the lens – the dSLRs are good for quality if you want to print larger plus flexibility of range of lenses, flashes etc – (all at a price) – it depends on what you want to shoot – i started out with a fujifilm s6500 and it did great job for me doing landsapes with some of my favourite pictures ever on this camera – and still printed to 20×16 inch without a problem