[Zeke]

Wil, my wife has a Canon 5D which is a starter camera for pros. It has icons for sports, portraits, landscapes and about 4 others. It also has all the override functions and individual functions so you can do what you used to do, control your composition with aperture, speed, film speed and so on.

There is also now control for color so you can have "filters" of all sorts w/o having to attach filters to the lens. Black and white and sepia are all in the camera, no need to buy B&W film.

This was my wife's epiphany: I said you know that clothes washer we have that has all the pre set settings like "sports," "heavy soil," etc. I said you know how all the LED lights move around to hot, warm, extra rinse, and all that jazz?

Then I said you know how you can override the default setting of the water temp for a particular pre set? Well, that's how your camera works. "Sports" is fast ASA, fast shutter speed a relatively small aperture. You want to change the depth of field? Override the aperture and the camera will compensate.

What's not to like there?