Michael...

Had a long chat with the guy in the classifieds and he was very positive about it. Has 2 of them. Anyway I offered him £250 just as a long shot but he wasn't keen...not surprised as it sounded mint. I decided i'll get one from jessops or another shop so I can get some kind of warranty on it unless its stupidly cheap in a private ad. Jessops 30 day return is pretty useful too. Now I'm back in civilisation (away from west Wales and back in Bath) I spoke to a guy at length about cameras generally today...he said the E-10 eats batteries...to the point that he thought it was unusable. Haven't heard that before...you have any probs?

Anyway he almost talked me into getting a film SLR as he had recently gone back to film and medium format after using digital for 2 years. I guess this is the vinyl vs CD equivalent of the photographic world and everyone will have their view. Although he had some good points about preferring to go out and shoot and get them developed rather than shoot everything and choose your favourite while hunched infront of the pc. All very familiar traditional vs digital arguments that crops up in plenty of hobbies I suppose! Was food for though though so I won't be rejecting film as an option in the future especially as a nice 2nd hand slr can be picked up pretty cheap. Medium format cameras are lovely things and look as though they can be very rewarding if you know what your doing.

I think I'll have a look around the camera shops to walk off the turkey and check my shortlist with the E-10 still in mind. I've had to write off the D30 because of the cost of lenses...not something I can justify quite yet. The E-10 seems like a cheaper option as far as add ons goes. 

Cheers

Tom