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I don't know much about Nikon's but I'm not sure if the F60 would be great. when released it was aimed at the amateur end of the market and therefore might not be that easy to use in fully manual mode (I could be wrong).

You are likely to get more for your money and better experience buying a MF SLR like the Pentax/Olympus cameras mentioned earlier. then you wont have the distraction of scene modes and flash's popping up when you don't want them etc.

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I am currently bidding like mad on ebay, I have just been outbid on an mz-7 which looks really good and has a few extra bits...theres also a k1000...you can tell thats from the 80's I may well bid on that as well, its just for the course really, I am sure that when I go pro(which of course I will!) I will be able to afford a big flashy all singing all dancing digital slr until then..