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Originally Posted by DarthYoda
For the price its a start. 
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I would not recommend any camera with a fixed lens for any pro work. You will extremely quickly regret buying it when faced with your first challenging task. You will also never get image quality as sharp from a small form camera with fixed lens.
The sensors on most D-SLRs or high-end copmpact such as the one you're talking about are mostly excellent, but the lens quality is what counts. My camera comes with a kit lens, and it's not bad, but when I put my £900 lens on it takes the quality of the image to a whole new level that you would never even have thought possible on the same camera.
These are the main reasons that I have not yet met a proper professional tog that uses a high-end compact or bridge camera for pro work.
You can upgrade you lenses when funds allow, but there's no point in having to upgrade the camera at the same time.
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Originally Posted by DarthYoda
Thanks for the great post there. I think I am going to go for the 9600 just now and in a year or two see how things go before gtting a full SLR.
You are right about the movie mode its handy to have just in case.
Also I am more keen on having the fixed lens. It does do 28-300mm which is pretty good. Not that I will possibly need the full zoom.
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It's your choice of course, but I would again (as a professional photographer myself) strongly advise you against it. If you're planning on doing any sort of photography when you're in front of the public (weddings / portraits / etc) then you will get some very bright sparks who know a bit about cameras piping up to criticise...and reputation is everything in this business. Up to you - we can live without the competition!