I’ve concluded it’s much easier to pick a perfect wife than a perfect camera, but it’s much less expensive to change cameras.
For what it’s worth, after reading dozens of reviews and shopping for two days, and bought a Kodak 4330. About two weeks later, it stopped working. After waiting nine weeks for the shop to repair it, I decided to give it to my grand daughter.
Then I selected a Kodak DX 6340 and waited weeks for it to come out. I was thrilled – simple, powerful and easy to use. My first batch of "never-to-be-available-again" pics of the big (sail) boat races in San Francisco Bay came out badly blurred. Kodak was very prompt and generous in OK’ing a replacement at Best Buy.
I reluctantly decided Kodak may have QC problems and decided on either a Canon or an Olympus Stylus. The Canon was too small for my fingers to easily use all the buttons, so I settled on the Stylus 300 (3mpx), no, wait – the 400 (4 mpx) for only $50.00 more. So far, the Stylus pics seem to be excellent and it’s easy to use.
Morals:
-There are no perfect cameras, but $400 – $500 will get you close. -Small is not necessarily good.
-Buy with a full replacement guarantee and shoot lots of pics as soon as possible.
– If you have a good wife, keep her.
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Just wondering if you had decided on a new Digital and if so, which one. I
have been sitting back and picking up pointers on different models and all the other good info. here on the forum. I have not made a decision yet on my first digital. At first I was leaning to the Nikon Coolpix 4300, then from Jodi’s expereience, the Fugi s5000, then the Minolta Diamage s414, now the Kodak DX6490. I am now totally confused. Maybe by Santa Claus time, I will make a decision. I’m sure any of the above would be a great choice, but I do like the features of the Kodak DX6490. Maybe it’s at the head of the list now. Comments welcome.