I was going to go back to the repairer, but the problem is they want the camera for "up to two weeks" and she can't be without a camera for her course at the moment. She can manage but she just has to crop the images when she prints them and allow for this when she shoots.

I'm going to keep checking ebay for a while before I look at one of the other models like the MZ 7

Sorry, MZ 5n

I've been offered a body by a dealer for £65 (seems a bit high to me) I'd rather pay about £50 if I can...

So are both of these Autofocus models? I know the MZ5m is a manual model

My daughter is using my Pentax MZ 5n for her A level photography but the camera had developed a fault. It doesn't wind on fully and you get frames overlapping a little. I had this fault repaired before she started the course but it has started up again. I was looking to buy a new camera body as I thought it would be as cheap as getting it repaired again but keep missing out on them on e-bay, where they go for about £40-£50.

Does anyone have one for sale?

Otherwise I was looking at some of the other models but I don't know enough about what would be a similar model. There are a lot of MZ 50 or the MZ 7 bodies on the site but I don't know how they compare.

She is looking for something Auto-focus that will take the same lenses she already has, similar operation, AE, manual, aperture and shutter speed priority.