Wife has 2 Cannon Rebel's. She loves them. She can crop out part of the picture and blow it up and still look great. Only disadvantage is it is sorta bulky to carry around, but beside that she loves it. She does have a 75 -300 zoom lens she can switch out and use, she has made some nice pictures with it. She has taken probably over 100,000 pictures with it.
First one she got back in 2003 and she got her new model last Christmas. If we were buying another one we would definitely look at the Cannon Rebel's again. Our pictures range in size of 3 megs to 7 megs, so if you going to email you will need to downsize them a little.