Need a new digital camera

[asy]

Marcel, as I said to you the other day, you'll be happy with anything with 'Panasonic Lumix' written on it. Easy to use, very good quality, great zoom and very nice lenses for what they are.

Go with the FZ1. If you get it fantastic. If not see if you can find an FZ5 around...

Furby, when you come to getting your DSLR talk to me, I'll tellya all about my magic 400D, it's so gorgeous

asy

[isawlogs]

 Dis has nutin to do with any answer to this post



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Thank you......

   Just been talking to Canon ..... man where do they get these idiots ... They just called back to confirm that I have a camera that is not under waranty ....  Duh  I new that ... I asked how much to get it fixed ... I cant be the first to have it fixed .....
   Dats when it went down hill .......
  Dey cant tell me how much cause dey dont know whats wrong ..... Ya right ..
   Got to bring the dam thing in and get an estamite , I have no problem with that ... how much .....  ya got to bring it in , we need to see the camera .....  no you dont .... Just tell me a ball park figure , on how much is it to have a S1 IS E18 looked after ...... You need to bring it in , and we will give you an estamite , AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG

   Dis went on for another couple of minutes before I lost it and told him where a camera like this could easily get shoved .....
   
 Did I saye I was upset with Canon yet ......

[KGNC]

The E18 fault is real common with the canon point and shoot cameras. I have one that started that,(may have gotten sand in the zoom). I tore into it to see if I could find the problem without much success. But I did find the same camera on ebay with a damaged case for a good price. I put the two together and have been using my little Frankenstein camera for almost two years.

[OneWithWood]

Marcel,
I feel your pain.  Some things just aren't worth the trouble or frustration to tear down and try to fix.  I recommend the following procedure:

Pick up favorite stick-like implement - ball bat, hockey stick, axe handle, etc.
Walk outside with said implement and E18 diseased camera
Gently toss camera into the air
Vigorously swing implement in a horizontal arc, impacting camera on its downward trajectory
Watch various peices of camera sail into oblivion
Take a deep breath, smile and feel the pain ebb away. . . .

[beenthere]

OWW
I also heard of another way........place it in the blender, flip the switch to ON........

I'm near ready to do that, with an HP Photosmart Printer, only I'd need to get a bigger blender. The third replacement arrived today, and I'm just a bit hesitant to see if it will work. Maybe third time is a charm. 

[Furby]

Marcel, send it to me..... maybe I can fix it.......... if not, I'll send it to the silo busters.

Thanks anyways Asy, but I already know I'm getting a canon.
Guess it's kinda stupid to say that in this thread eh?

[gary]

I bought a polaroid a 500 for $125.00. it has5.1 mega pixels and 4x zoom. It takes nice pictures but I haven't dropped it or put it in water yet.

[Furby]

Aw, come on Gary live a little!
Gotta give them a couple drops and get them wet somehow before you can give a real opinon.

[SPIKER]

Hey while I was playing & reading I decided to snap a quick shot using the $149.00 camera I bought a while back.   I have about 30 pics in my different gallery's, any taken this year (file names have dates in them) are using this camera anything prior or 2006 date were the HP one I just sold on ebay (thank good!)

samsung digimax S700  pic of dime held in my hand image stabilization on no flash in micro mode.



I like this camera works great great battery life and easy to use...

(Haven't dropped it into the MUD, the CREEK or down the steps YET but it's only 2 months or less old      I'm sure I will eventually   also I'm glad I don't have any fingers in that pic, considering the low res of the forum gallery you can sure see the palm ridges in my hand!


Mark

[SwampDonkey]

isawlogs, I think it's safe to say that asking for the forum's opinion on what camera to buy is going to be biased about like Chevy vs Ford vs Toyota. Of course you know the right choice.

[Quartlow]

Mark, that is a darn good picture for a $150 camera

[SPIKER]

Isawlogs;
ii ya I agree that is why I posted pic showing detail.   when I went to buy this camera guy tried to talk me into a 400 buck one said he just bought one to take pics of coins for ebay.   told me I would be wasting my $ if I bought this 149 buck camera.  I took out a quarter & tossed it onto the counter at the electronics store, took a pic using both cameras & compared the 2.   the 150 buck one was hands down the winner in price ease of use and quality!    guy kind of pursed his lips & walked away      I figured well if it looks that good I suppose it should work 4 me  hahah

the digital zoom is not 100% great due to fact I have shaky hands but so far I haven't used ZOOM more than just the optical and with the 1000 ISA speed it seems that the shaky hands are not quite as bad / showing up in the photos...

MarkM

[mdvaden]

I've had the S1 ls for over 2 years now - drug it on many, many hikes.

I may get more life out of mine, because I often keep it out for quite a while while hiking and intermittently push the button down only half way. It keeps the lens from retracting, and saves the motor.

It's such a superb camera - especially the lens quality - that I plan to get whatever model replaced it: I think its black now, with a 12x zoom and 6 mega pix.

One camera that intrigues me, and I just saw one for the first time at Costco today, is a Nikon Coolpix with a 12x zoom lens. The left half of the camera swivels. It was about $300. I read on review that said the images were not too grand, but another review was good.

If I were not to get that Nikon, I'd probably stick with what's reliable. So far, when I was out in the woods photographing, two professional photographers have stopped to talk to me. They both glanced at my camera and said "excellent camera". So that has lodged in my thinking.

[tcsmpsi]

Well, I'm no photogeneticjournalist, so I need something that works and put up with me.

All the pics (except some of the old ones made before digital and scanned) in my gallery were made with a HP M425.  It's got 5 megapixels (though I haven't found them yet and don't know how they hide them in that little package).  It is a handy little rascal, uses 2 AA and is better on power consumption than my previous cameras.

It does more stuff than I have time to fool with.  Personally, I have good service from HP products.  I think my wife gave about $125 for it (got it for a bday gift  ).

I like the little rascal.

[pappy]

Marcel,
Try overstock.com ... I bought a Kodak Easy Share scratch and dent (reconditioned) the first time and didn't really did like, it went south on me. Glad I had bought the insurance and they honored it no problem... So I upgraded to an Olympus for a bit more money and really like it!! I got a 5 mega pixel which isn't really necessary unless ya want to make posters...

Jus mes deux cenes (sp)