As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to be a photographer for the time being. I come by an interest in photography honestly - Mum was quite a shutterbug for a while, until recently she usually had more than one camera, in fact at one time she had more cameras than the stereotypical Asian tourist. My brother was quite a photographer in the 70s, he even had a darkroom. I was yearbook photographer, and that's where I learned the basics. I had a very trusty, all manual Pentax K1000. Ask to see my high school yearbook sometime and I'll show you some of the neat pictures I took. Just don't look at my senior picture, okay? I can still hear the junior high students yelling for me to take their pictures. Ah, good times. So I've been looking around on e-Bay for something similar. I've always had Nikon envy, so I may try to get a Nikon FG, which is pretty much manual as well, just better built and a couple more options.

The problem with stalking items on e-Bay is that urge, you know, "Oh, there's what you want! Better get it NOW!! Fortunately, FGs seem to be in plentiful supply, so I suppose I'll play the Waiting Game. It's always nice to be able to pay for what you win.

(Oh, if I get another camera, I'll have three - a nice digital, a nice point-n-shoot, and an Art School model.) P.S> - the Waiting Game sucks!