True, you must learn how to compose the pic but the lenses are...

True, you must learn how to compose the pic but the lenses are more important than the camera.

Here's my son's Flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_orange/

He uses Canon but most of what he does is without flash, even indoors. He has what he calls his "fast lens" which he opens wide and gets a narrow depth of field for effect.

This one is typical:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_orange/3516692565/

And this one with f1.4:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_orange/3180780293/meta/