Buying a secondhand SLR

[A Crosby]

I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
possible. I have a budget of up to £300 ($490). Any suggestions?

Alistair

[Avogadro]

On 14 Jul 2003 11:46:16 -0700, [email]crosby9480@hotmail.com[/email] (A Crosby)
wrote:

>I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
>autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
>possible. I have a budget of up to £300 ($490). Any suggestions?

There are many excellent choices today. For about $150 you can get a
Pentax Spotmatic. That is a pro quality camera (and system). All
manual, though.

Lots of top quality fixed focus lenses are available used. The 28mm
and 135mm often go for quite a bit less than $100 on eBay.

Back in the 1960s when I was a kid, I did not have such choice! You
are lucky.

Avogadro

[Matt Clara]

"A Crosby" <crosby9480@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f34c34d4.0307140716.211070bb@posting.google.c om...

> I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
> autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
> possible. I have a budget of up to £300 ($490). Any suggestions?
>
> Alistair

Used Canon Elan IIe from KEH along with a new 50mm lens.

[Danny]

If you are willing to look and sift through things.. I would reccommend
going to EBAY. I just picked up a Canon Elan7e with a 28-90mm EF lens for
less than $400. This camera is like brand new and takes beautiful
pictures... (When I learn to use the camera properly, it will take
beautiful photographs.. LOL).

Danny


"A Crosby" <crosby9480@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f34c34d4.0307140716.211070bb@posting.google.c om...

> I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
> autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
> possible. I have a budget of up to £300 ($490). Any suggestions?
>
> Alistair

[Ming]

You can get a Minolta X-700. It is very cheap and it has almost the same
function as Nikon FA, which is much more expensive used. And you can
get some Minolta manual focus lens on ebay at cheap price.

However, under your budget, I would recommend you to get a Autofocuse
camera like Minolta Dynax 5 with a 24-50mm lens or 24-105mm lens. Dynax 5
has "decent metering" and the lens are "highest optical quality" and not
very expensive.

Ming.

¦b 14 Jul 2003 11:46:16 -0700, A Crosby <crosby9480@hotmail.com> ¼g¹D:

> I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
> autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
> possible. I have a budget of up to ¢G300 ($490). Any suggestions?
>
> Alistair
>

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[Buzz Chandler]

This camera is like brand new and takes beautiful

> pictures... (When I learn to use the camera properly, it will take
> beautiful photographs.. LOL).
>

Oh no Danny....go back to chapter one, page one.

[Bhup]

For 300 quid you can buy a nice Nikon FE2 and a couple of nikkor lens the
FE2 pay not more than £180 £40 for a 50mm lens F1.8 or the F2 the rest on
maybe a Nikkor 135mm F3.5
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"A Crosby" <crosby9480@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to buy a secondhand SLR camera. I'm not fussed about
> autofocus, but want decent metering and the highest optical quality
> possible. I have a budget of up to £300 ($490). Any suggestions?
>
> Alistair