My wife has asked for a decent film camera for Christmas and I am a newbie in that area. I have now read several very good threads here at Ars as well as sites linked to from them (www.photo.net comes ...

The camera shouldn’t be the problem. The Rebel 2000 ($400 with lens, in most cases) is a perfectly good amateur-level SLR camera, one that of course takes plain ol’ and always reliable 35mm film. With ...