Be warned!

[Sutton Warrior]

As you all know, I have recently purchased a new Canon compact 640, to replace my Canon S50. The S50 went seriously wrong 3 times in 3 years! However I thought I had been unlucky, the picture quality was very good. Well the 640 has stopped working this evening, take about 500 pics in 4 months! Its obviously going back under GT, but I draw a your attention to this as thats to much of a coincidence.

 

Back to Nikon, they are built like brick **** houses. The Mrs wants a camera, it wont be a Canon!

 

Forewarned is fore armed . . . SW

[Steve Burke]

Our's is the opposite experience. Peggy was given a Nikon compact as a leaving present. It literally fell to pieces just after the guarantee expired! Nikon wanted so much to repair it we told them to bin it. Since then we've both had Canons and had no problems.

[Sutton Warrior]

Our's is the opposite experience. Peggy was given a Nikon compact as a leaving present. It literally fell to pieces just after the guarantee expired! Nikon wanted so much to repair it we told them to bin it. Since then we've both had Canons and had no problems.

 

 

Just shows, dont it. Well, own up!!! egg on face Sitting in the bath contemplating as you do, I went through the Canon in my mind, eureka!! I came down stairs . . . put some clothes on first and re looked at the back of the camera, there is a sliding switch that turns all the camera functions off when it is set to view pictures mode My humble apologies to Canon, my clumsy digits

 

All is well . . . Just begs the question, what do I buy Hazel, its her birthday on the 12th Sept., she fancies a cheap and simple P&S, looking at the Canon 440???

 

Hay just been browsing the review pages, any one seen the new Nikon D300, phew what a spec., have a gander; http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikond300/

 

SW

[Steve Burke]

I suspect Peggy was very unlucky with her Nikon as the company has an excellent reputation.

 

However, it may have been a blessing in disguise as the Canon A80 that replaced it was more suited to her main need of taking photos of the paperweights she sells. This was because of a the vari-angle screen and the full manual override, both making close-ups much easier.

 

However both the Canon and the Nikon were excellent for family and holiday photos.

 

BTW, there are some real bargain discontinued cameras on price comparison site Pricerunner. These are barely different to the current models but often at huge savings! Go to http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/cl/29/Digital-Cameras