Well, a good tip would seem to be avoid doing business with Prestige Camera. Many people have been annoyed at their bad (fradulent) business practices. To read an article about the issue, go to: http://www.newstarget.com/020780.html. Or simply Google it.

Prestige Camera may also be doing business under the following names:
A&M Photo World
Broadway Photo
Cameratopia
Digital Liquidators LLC
Ghu, LLC
Preferred Photo
Regal Camera
Tronicity

And their ratings are quite skewed on DigitalSaver.com, don't go there.

Observation, observation, observation. This is the tip of the day.

A helpful way to look at photography is to see it as finding your own unique style of writing. There are formal and informal ways, fiction and poetry. Each style is good for a certain idea, but your own style is the one you use to communicate the world at large. How can you use this state of mind, this style, this language to better generate the emotions and subsequent action on behalf of the audience that you were intending? It all comes down to how well you know your own language.

I've had some trouble with my two existing cameras recently. My Canon Rebel 2000 seems to be in top form, except for the auto bracketing function which I can't seem to get working. I just got an old Konica FT1 Motor, and I think it's seen better days. While the verdict is still out on the usability of it, I've been borrowing the school's Nikon FM2.