Hot shot: The Canon EOS 450D

This is Canon's brand-newest digital SLR camera, and it makes the impossible possible. It's the first Canon SLR to have Live View, letting you take shots the way you would with a compact camera: at arm's length while looking at the screen. It’s not just a D-SLR for numpties though - it plugs stacks of gaps the old 400D left gaping, with features like spot metering for the aficionados and an image-stabilising lens for the quiverous of grip. The increased-pixel-count box is ticked too, with 12.2 million of the blighters in each and every shot. It's relatively pricey at £600, but it beats the old model by a country mile. We love it.