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>>189419 Have you talked this over with him at all?
Because moving from manual focus probably primes to autofocus zooms might not be what he wants, brands aside- you've got like five picks of primes in the digital Olympus system, good ones if they suit the shooter, but still, and their viewfinders aren't good enough to manually focus with.
And with digital, there's the added problem that digital files look flat without processing. If he doesn't want to learn how to process them he could easily be dissatisfied with the look of his old Kodachrome and Tri-X (or whatever) compared to the new files.
Of course, if there's no where to develop film you don't really have a choice with film versus digital.
Also, that place looks lovely. It also looks like it's probably pretty humid and gets wet a lot. Only weatherproof Olympus body is the E-3.
If you go Olympus, your best bet is the E-520 (E-420 the other guy mentioned is the small version; the E-520 is slightly larger but offers IS, which isn't a whizbang feature but actually helps, especially if his hands aren't as good as they used to be) with the 25/2.8 and either the 35/3.5 or the 50/2, depending on his taste in focal lengths.
Since I don't know if you're from /p/ or elsewhere, I'll just mention that an Olympus DSLR lens is the same as one twice the length for 35mm film, i.e. the 25mm is just like a 50mm and the 35mm is just like a 70mm, etc.
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