You got yourself a pretty nice deal, I paid that 250 for the camera in December. It's pretty user friendly and I learn a lot of thing about the technical side of photography on it. The manual mode allow you to mess with aperture, shutter speed, ISO so you have a decent amount of control which is alway fun. I have taken like 1400 pictures on it and so far, it's fine. 1400 pictures is not a lot but I wonder how long a camera like this would last for, anyone got any idea?