I'm the person Rubix is on about, personally I'm a Canon man but the person who a shoot weddings with is a Nikon man. It comes down to personal preference at the end of the day what you go for for brand. As for the camera's, it really depends on what it's going to be used for. If it's just to be mucking around and learning the basic's then a bridge camera will do just fine, if your wanting to capture thing a long distance away then you'll need to go for an SLR digital or film, so that you can buy a long lens, to bring objects closer. You can pick up second hand D-SLR's for a couple of hundr