Just got Canon SXi but not so impressed with all hyped about it

[Rachelsne]

Congratulaions on your new purchase,

Your camera has a small brain, when you use it on auto mode it is making all the decisions, so if it sees something close its going might focus on that and choose to blur out the back ground and the other parts that are not the main focus point ill begin to blur. Once you can use the other settings you will be able to control your camera, and it wont make the decisions.

I recently upgraded from a point and shoot to the Canon 30d, which is similar. The first thing I did was read the manual, (did that before the camera arrived on line) when I read the manual i came accross lots of words I didnt understand, so I used the internet to search and get a better understanding. just some of the simple abbreviation confused me

Good luck