Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I've mentioned a few times that I shoot with the olympus e10 - its a few years old now, but I've seen them go for as low as $400 on ebay sometimes for a good used one (originally we paid $2,200 when they hit the market).

It has all the features you'd want, manual and full-auto modes - and can shoot in almost total darkness with long exposures. They're damn rugged and solidly built, too. I've shot over 100k shots with mine so far in about 3 years (scenic and adult combined)...so they stand up very well to a LOT of photography.

Hell, I'd buy another one again in a heartbeat, hehe.