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Like carrying your TV set around with you... (Reply to this comment)
by glen22
Durability? Reliability? Service life? I was disappointed to see no coverage of the very common malfunction issues with digital cameras including DSLRS, not to mention a discussion of repair centers and complaints with a huge rise in warranty returns.
Does anyone ever visit a repair tech to see how these things are made? No moisture protection, superthin circuit boards, and plastic operating mechanisms (especially cheap zoom advance mechanisms) are not going to make for a long lasting camera. Just high humidity invading the sensor has destroyed some digicams. A slight bang against a car door destroyed my brother's new, expensive digicam. A lady who tripped in her bedroom rapped her Nikon DSLR against the bedpost - result - a dead camera. It's like carrying your TV set out-of-doors with you.
My last film camera lasted 25 years, is 6 months all that digital users are willing to settle for? If not, perhaps it's finally time to seriously examine the malfunction rate of these cameras and why it happens so frequently.
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Nov 13 '05
9:42 am PST
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by lammet
...posting. Well done. It should help clear some of the myths re digicams. But I feel it needs a re-write, not just an update.
Cheers,
Vasilis
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Jul 23 '05
9:19 am PDT
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Great contributions, Larry. (Reply to this comment)
by steverose
Great advice and info in all your posts. I'd enlarge the warning about most CMOS sensors. Also very useful is www.steves-digicams.com (different Steve) which has close to identical sample pictures from many cameras, allowing direct comparison. You've done a great service, Larry, and probably saved folks a lot of money!
Aloha,
Steve
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Feb 14 '05
1:03 pm PST
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