I have 5 friends that have experienced your set of troubles. Very few
digital cameras are meant to last. It is quite evident that most are no
better than the grocery store "throw aways". I have an Olympus 2100UZ, but
I got it at half price by waiting a year. No way I would pay full price for
a digcam. Long gone are the days of craftsmanship. My OM1n will far
outlast ANY digicam that comes out. We also have a "Wunderbrick"; a Nikon
F60. It is the last of a dying breed; well buit and SOLID (no plastic).
Nikon's new SLR offerings are all plastic (other mfgrs are as well). Most
cameras are plastic junk now, which is too bad. But they are only feeding a
marketplace that wants this crummy stuff.
-Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Geilfuss [mailto:cgeilfuss@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: June 19, 2002 10:34 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: State of Digital Photography (long)
Greetings All,
Please forgive me for digressing from discussions of OM, but I would like
to describe a recent series of events that I think speaks volumes about the
state of digital photography.
Let me begin by stating up front that I see its good points..most
significant being quick turn around time. It was for this reason we decided
to purchase a Nikon Coolpix 950 to use in our Pathology practice. It is used
mainly in the weekly Cancer Conference in which newly diagnosed cancer cases
are presented for discussion before a group of surgeons, oncologists, etc to
discuss treatment options. Typically we get the patient names the afternoon
before or the morning of the conference, so digital is a god-send for
quickly obtaining images for presentation (in the old days we used polaroid
slide film that we developed on site...don't want to go back there).
Last Monday the Coolpix died (for the second time). I called around town
to find a rental...no luck. I called around to different departments in the
hospital and located 5 other digital cameras. Two were unsuitable for use
with a microscope and the other three were BROKEN. All were less than two
years old. Now I know these things are complicated but is their reliability
really that much less than a typical film wunderbrick or for that matter a
VCR! I'd really like to see Consumers Union do a real survey on the average
time of use before a digital camera goes belly-up. I have a feeling we're
being sold a bill of goods.
OM content(not really): I tried my wife's Olympus 700uz which works fine
but is unsuited for shooting through a microscope.
Charlie Geilfuss
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