thanks jfdavis58 I am at work right now on a crappy monitor so I will have to check them out on monday.
you are right on the money, jfdavis58
when we first lived together, I brought (at the time amoung the fastest) a good computer with me. she had a really old and crappy one.
"I will never need that expensive computer" Is what I heard. evenually I couldn't get her off it!
my wife has always liked scrapbooking, and I told her she should get into digital scrapbooking.
"No way am I ever going to touch Photoshop" then she looked at at site called
Digital Scrapbooking at the Digital Scrapbook Place! Computer Scrapping is the hottest new way to preserve your memories!
got interested, but got me to do all the photoshop work.
then BANG! she is on her own and is now very capable with photoshop. she is an amazing blender. I still hold the edge on color correction and optimizing for the web.
she is way more creative then me, so she has passed me in many ways.
she sometimes teases me by saying she wants a DLSR and then draws back.
I think I will take her into the camera shop and let her play around.
I am definately getting the k10, and likely a sigma 17-70 glass and a sigma 500 super flash.
I am sure if she gets the k100, she will realize what I mean why getting a camera like pentax that could share everything is the best.
I lot of people on her digital scrap place have canon rebels, and have been trying to convince her that is the way to go.
I told her that the pentax is very close to the rebel xt (not the xti) for a lot less. her ears perked up.
thanks again for the recommendations, eveyone
randy