>>4483648I don't know why other anons are saying "reliability" in quotes reliability is really a big factor. Electronic SLRs have a habit of randomly killing themselves and can't reallybe fixed where as fully mechanical SLRs can survive almost anything and can be fixed with some lighter fluid. Also you don't need batteries, and a lot of newer SLRs take stupid hard to find lithium batteries. And if you are gonna shoot manual usuallyit's just a little easier on an older one, and the AF on the newer ones isn't that good anyone so I don't really use it. And alot of the older ones are lighter and smaller too.
I personally use both and see the value of both, but usually when I'm going somewhere I'm gonna take a fully mechanical one because I know it's gonna work. I've had spontaneous total failure on the majority of electronic cameras I've owned, but never on mechanical.
