For a while now I've been thinking about stepping up to a digital SLR, and my wife's b-day is coming up, making this a good occasion. I've never owned or used an SLR camera, and I've just been reading online reviews. With my current little point and shoot, I just bought the most megapixels I could get for the money. Huge mistake. That camera is abysmal - super slow and the images all look yellow, with or without flash. I don't want to make that mistake again, so I'm asking you guys with experience.
90% of my pictures are of my little boy, with the occasional pics of woodworking projects (though at my pace, pictures of completed projects are a rarity) so I would like something relatively fast and capable of taking a good closeup. And I also occasionally also like to print in larger formats to put into shop-made frames. The Pentax k-x looks to have a lot of features for the price. Features that appeal to me are autofocus, hd video, and decent speed. I don't want to drop $1200 on my first dSLR. So, do you think this would be a good camera for the type of photography described or, if not, what should I be looking at in the $600 range?
thanks for your help.
Lee