The Canon EOS Rebel 2000 is a lightweight and full-featured automatic 35mm SLR for both beginning and advanced amateur photographers. It offers a host of special modes for specificshooting situations, including full auto, manual, night scene,portrait, landscape, and more. It also has shutter-speed priority and aperture priority modes. Other features include an impressive seven-point autofocus system, LCD panel with extensive information display, three exposure metering modes (evaluative, partial, and center weighted), autoexposure bracketing, a multiple exposure function, and depth-of-field preview. The autofocus system is incredibly responsive, and includes seven focusing points that can be set individually for super creativeshooting. In other words, using the LCD panel as a guide, you can setthe camera to automatically focus on the far right focus point (or anyof the other points) so your main subject doesn't have to be in the middle of the frame to be in focus in a snap. Most settings can be adjusted in creative ways on the Rebel2000, like the exposure level, which can be set to overexpose orunderexpose up to two full stops for tricky lighting situations where you might want to fool the camera's metering system. It also has a small, built-in pop-up flash, plus a hot shoe for an additional flash unit. This was my very first SLR camera as a photography student, and I have also included here a 28-80mm lens, 12 professional Ilford Multigrade filters (retail $24) and a first roll of film to get you started (Ilford HP5 PLUS 400 black and white film). In my opinion this is a perfect starter kit for a new photography student or hobbyist. Everything is used extremely gently. There are two very small imperfections right next to the shutter button which you can see in the photo. Requires two standard 1CR2 3v lithium batteries. Pick up only on Mercer Island (no shipping). Thank you!