I wanted to be able to take decent pictures of my two daughters and everytime I tried with my old point and shoot it was a lot of blurry images, for some reason toddlers don't stay still for very long... That led me to get a DSLR which was a D50 and once I got that in my hands I realized how much could be done with it and how much I enjoyed taking picutres and now it is a full blown hobby and having two beautiful girls to practice on makes it even better!