[Spacey]

Pentax K1000D

In body image stabilizaton
Use of convinent "AA" batteries or CRV-3 photo batteries
Smaller but comfortable for most hands
Huge Pentax Lens Backward compatibility (Back to about 1970, and awesome Pentax "Limited" lenses)

$600 ish with 18-55/3.5-5.6 kit lens.

or Pentax *istDS or *istDL
all the features, just no image stabilzation.

-$400 used, from KEH w/o lens. Kit lens on eBay, $100.