We got given a 2mpix in 2004, which is interesting to use, but I still preferred using my old OM10 (bought in 1980) which I'd got out again after many years of neglect back in 2002. Through 2004/5 I'd struggled with it for macro shots and had never got a truly satisfying image.
Eventually at the beginning of June of last year I bought a Panasonic FZ30. I was about to buy an Olympus E500 when I read a couple of reviews that said that you had limited choice in macro lens. At that point I was impressed by one guys macro shots using a FZ30 + Raynox DCR-150 (I already had the DCR-250) so checked up on the camera.
What I saw was a 35-420 leica zoom, and had teh followingg conversation with myself
Why do buy a dSLR?
Well to swap lens.
This has a 35-420 zoom.
Primary lens are better.
Am I going to buy primmary lens.
No you're thinking of whacking on a couple of zooms.
But I might get a decent macro lens.
You'll have to carry it about, which means putting it in that big bag with all that other gear, which you leave in the car anyway, and just whack on the zoom lens.
I then did a google search of photos using the FZ30 saw that it was capable of landscape and portraits and ordered one. Will I get a dSLR in the future? Who knows I love the freedom of not having to carry around all the gear and not feeling peeved that I've left it all it home/car. Though I have had a couple of thoughts about polarizing neutral density and other types of filters, perhaps that's the slippery slope.
This was one of the first photos I took with it.
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...500&ppuser=472
So anyway last year I went from a semi-automatic exposure setting manual focussing camera to digital.