<span style="font-size: medium;"]Thanks Bryan for another excellent review! We appreciate the effort you put into this!


<span style="font-size: medium;"]Once there's a new review, I always suspend whatever work I'm doing at the moment and read it. I always expect to learn something from it and I always can - both on the information and on your insight of this industry. I agree that the XS makes a lot of sense only when it's at the right price tag. I think the XS's image quality should be on par with the XTi - that's good enough to impress most people upgraded from P&amp;S.


<span style="font-size: medium;"]The 100,000 shutter life is a surprise to me too, but personally that does not make too much of a difference - four months into my 50D's life I only got 1900 shots on it... Maybe I'm among the most careful digital photographers, who knows []


<span style="font-size: medium;"]I think Canon should emphasize to its beginner customers that <span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"]LENSES<span style="font-size: medium;"] actually make the most dramatic difference IQ wise once they have had a DSLR body. I have seen enough people using an XS, XSi or even a 40D or 50D with the 18-55 kit lens. Once I talked with one of my friends who's using a 40D with the 18-55 II lens about getting a better lens such as the 24-105, he said I was crazy because I encouraged him to spend as much money on a lens as his body. Beginners seem to have very weak concept of lens choices as they never need to buy a lens separately when using P&amp;S cameras. I always think that they would have been a lot happier with their DSLRs if better lenses were used. Canon should somehow figure out a way to convince beginners to consider some greater investment into lenses.


<span style="font-size: medium;"]Just my thoughts.


<span style="font-size: medium;"]Ben