Agreed.I have the MJU2 with 35mm lens and the zoom 80 with 35-80
lens.Both good, the MJU2 is smaller though, and far easier to
carry.Around £50 new, £25-35 on ebay for either.

I've got to disagree with this.35mm film is still available virtually
everywhere - a corner shop near me sells it.Admittedly there is less
choice in High St. stores, as they seem to only want to sell digi
cameras, but there is still a large range of different films being made,
and still available.
The death of film has been predicted for years, but I cannot see it
going - since around 1980 the lingering death of black and white has
been expected, yet there is still a good range of films,papers and
developers available, maybe not as much choice as in 1980, but the films
of today (Ilford Delta 400 for instance) are far superior to what was
available in 1980.
Agfa have recently gone into administration, but I cannot ever recall
buying any agfa photo product, and it seems there is likely to be a
buyer for many parts of their businesses anyway,whether the film side is
bought is unknown afaik.It wont be a loss to me personally.
Ilford did go into admin last year, but were soon bought out, and have
said they will continue with their range of photo consumables, and will
continue to invest for future develpoments.
Alan.

The mju's have excellent lenses and accurate auto exposure (I use one
myself) but there's no manual setting other than focus lock / exposure
lock, and no readout to even tell you what the exposure or focus setting
is. I find this quite a drawback as the focus can be fooled by things like
water or ice, and without an aperture readout you can't control or even
predict depth of field, you just have to press the shutter and hope for the
best. Unfortunately when I was buying it these issues didn't occur to me,
it was only out in the field that I realised I had no control.

But its streamlined shape does make it very pocketable and I can make good
A3 prints (the 35mm mju2 seems to be as sharp as my prime Pentax lenses,
though somewhat more flare). Sadly mass market d&p doesn't begin to do
justice to the accurate exposure, it was only when I scanned the negs
myself that I realised they were perfectly exposed and didn't really have
the bleached skies etc that I saw on the prints the lab sent me.