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I reckon your best bet is an EOS500 for <£30 and either an EF 50mm f1.8 or the 40mm f2.8 pancake for £50-100. Proper SLR functionality and nice lenses and almost the size of a compact.
All the 90s plastic stuff is very unfashionable but IME works great and is dirt cheap.
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Yes good shout that. Will look into that!
@oheyitsd my XA2 (which is my partner's childhood camera) had it's flash lost agessss ago, never missed it personally. Apparently they take forever to 'warm up' too.
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Yup, my first voyage into canon SLR was 90's plastic units, eos 300 and eos 500 and a eos 3 or 5 with the eye control (only had 5 points though, thing was a tank). And honestly from every analogue camera with a TTL sensor I've ever used, they always had the best metering, only when shooting underground, sewers and mines was exposure (not the cameras fault) an issue.
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That's very generous.
The plan is to take it to Aus for a month in Oct/Nov, so would need to be happy for it to travel.
Maybe I'll just take the XA2 as I worry I might lose it!