I can only praise this camera. Nothing creaks or wobbles, the picture quality is great as well as the noise performance. For me, a camera is more tool as a status symbol, that the housing is made simpler than the other cameras from Canon, bothers me personally not at all - the picture quality is more important to me and has really given here. The money saved can I invest in higher quality lenses. A very strong buy recommendation for the 1000D. Shortly the objective that at the camera with me was: The EF-S 18-55 is indeed useful but I have yet to sample recordings and sold me worried substitute. The lens alone I would rate with 3 points or stars that given by me 5 stars relate to the housing.