I bid on an Elan IIe on the bay
All this electronic will bring me in modern film days (I'm currently shooting with a Praktica L-2), it should be fun to use with my only canon lens (Plastic Fantastic).
Several years ago I replaced an original Rebel with a IIe and I've quite enjoyed it. It's a helluva camera chock-a-block ful of features and controls. Hopefully you got the owners manual with yours. If not, you'll want to visit Mike Butkus's site and d/l a copy. I have a few old Canon EF lenses I use with mine -- a 28-85, 70-210, and 75-300. The 75-300 usually gets crummy reviews, but I've found mine to be very sharp, even at 300mm. The lens I use the most, though, is a Tamron 24-70 Aspherical. I bought it new in 1994 for my dearly departed old Rebel. Great lens. You can occasionally find them on eBay in EOS mount for cheap.
the n80 shoots G lenses so thats a big plus. i keep buying them for some reason. wind up giving them to my kids or leaving them at the beach house. hard to pass up at $20 for like new in the box. have bought 8 over the last 3 years and all work great. i never use the battery pack as for me it defeats the purpose of the small size. i also buy 123 batteries in bulk for my pentax 67ii and fuji 645zi so its not an issue to find the obscure size. use it with the little 50mm 1.8d lens and you have a great light sharp modern film package for less than $80. bargin
I'd read that the N80 can use G lenses, but I've never tried buying any. I prefer the "D" lenses. They're usually cheaper than "G" lenses, plus I can use them on manual focus Nikons as well. I find their focusing collars, while smaller than their MF counterparts, are still wide enough to get a decent grip, plus they are well-damped, responding the way MF lenses do. I too bought a small supply of CR123s online after almost fainting at the prices at Walgreens -- $12 each! I'd paid only $40 for the camera! And since the N80 is the only camera I own that takes CR123s, I decided to look for an MB16, which I was successful in finding. It was attached to another N80, which I bought for about what N80s sell for, so when I sold this new-to-me N80, I wound up with the MB16 for free. I love it when I can pull off deals like that. The added weight of the MB16 is negligible and I don't mind the slight increase in size. Call me an atavistic anachronism (with iconoclastic tendencies), but I actually prefer large cameras, and its okay even if they're a bit on the heavy side. It's the way I learned how to shoot, lugging around the heavy stuff. And even though I'm older and can appreciate the lighter things (like an N80), I still don't mind lugging around the heavy stuff (like my Pentax 67 or my Canon F-1s or Nikon F2s with motor drives attached) on occasion. I prefer it when it's in a case with rolling wheels on the bottom, however.