the d40x is one of the lower dsl's you can get but its decent for a new photographer. All the other stuff in the package is crap though, flash, filter, tripod is really cheap and is commonly done through ebay so it looks like your getting a lot of stuff, i got a smaller deal with my dslr camera off of ebay and the tripod broke really easily...so i would say you can probably get the body somewhere around $500, and then buy things seperatly, that way you won't sacrifice you time on cheaply made technology.