Top 3 cameras for less than £100

No.1... A lovely M9 with a Summilux. Although, I'm still waiting for this outfit to be mine for under $100. 🙂
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Lubitel.

Pentax SV.

(Almost) anything I'm given, eg. Contaflex Super BC.

Cheers,

R.

I hear you on the Pentax SV.
I recently acquired a non functioning H3 and was impressed by it's aesthetic appeal. Very nice. Unfortunately I wasn't able to bring it back to life.
But mostly I was blown away by the auto-takumar 55/2 that
was attached to it. That is a seriously sweet little lens.
 
Olympus 35SP (Love the other cameras in this line but images from the SP resonate a bit more)
Yashica Lynx 14 (because I'm always short on speed)
Retina IIIc (nice and compact)

Autocord ($50+$120 in service puts it just slightly over the edge depending on exchange rate)
 
Hi,

Keeping it within the budget suggests:

OM-2 or OM-2n which is overshadowed by the OM-1 etc or, cheaper still and giving manual and program modes the OM-10. They all take the superb Zuiko lens. With a bit of luck half the budget would cover it...

Minolta or Konica or Pentax P&S with a zoom lens (28 to 90 ish) as a pocket-able and not so serious camera but still capable of turning out gems.

FED 1 or 2 to use as a RF when needed and to pass as a more expensive one when necessary. (That seems to be an important issue.) And their standard 50mm lenses are more than OK.

Chose carefully and you could probably get a usable set of lenses for the SLR for very little cash. The 85/90 would be dearest but 28 or 35's are cheaper and many of us ignore 50mm standards.

And there it is; a line up of a serious SLR, a serious pocket P&S and a serious CRF, especially if the FED 2 is the chosen one.

Regards, David

PS I wanted a range of makers; the alternative would be a Pentax or Minolta SLR and 2 lenses (28 or 35 and 85 or 90), an Olympus XA2 or 3 and still a CRF if one of the fixed lens ones by (say) Canon or Ricoh was chosen.

PPS Stick to one make and Olympus could supply them all, too...
 
I would say the Canon AE-1 Program! I got it for just under 100 with lens, and it's been reliable since. Great for travel too.

I have a little review I wrote about the camera recently, which had more information about it! Take a look!
 
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