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Arkaign

Arkaign

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shortylickens said:
Shit man, you should know better. No digital camera under a hundred dollars has ever been worth a damn.
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Well, for sure $100+ of the right camera will always be better than sub-$100 of poor quality, but I've had a couple cheapies that have been pretty good. I bought my older boy a Samsung ES91 online for like $60, and it turned out to be better than my $150 Canon. Granted, it's about 3 years newer. I made many mistakes here though :

(1) Shopping at WalMart at 10PM thinking I could find something better than useless.
(2) Thinking that a cheap Vivitar was a passable idea.
(3) Not checking reviews online using my cell phone.
(4) Expecting even the quality of a 2MP cell phone camera.

Guess I'll go back to online-only for these kinds of purchases. The only reason I did this was to help a friend out in a pinch, time was a factor so online was out of the question.
 
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Arkaign said:
Well, for sure $100+ of the right camera will always be better than sub-$100 of poor quality, but I've had a couple cheapies that have been pretty good. I bought my older boy a Samsung ES91 online for like $60, and it turned out to be better than my $150 Canon. Granted, it's about 3 years newer. I made many mistakes here though :

(1) Shopping at WalMart at 10PM thinking I could find something better than useless.
(2) Thinking that a cheap Vivitar was a passable idea.
(3) Not checking reviews online using my cell phone.
(4) Expecting even the quality of a 2MP cell phone camera.

Guess I'll go back to online-only for these kinds of purchases. The only reason I did this was to help a friend out in a pinch, time was a factor so online was out of the question.
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Yeah, it's hard to imagine pretty much any digital camera being as shitty as you describe even at that price. I would have expected at least close to cell phone quality pictures as well. Which is exactly what they were planning on! :)
 
Arkaign

Arkaign

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shortylickens said:
http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Easyshar...pr_product_top

This is OK for being 40 bucks. I guess. But I shant be giving up my SLR for it.
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Ah yeah! I've used a similar Kodak before, that's exactly the kind of cheap camera I was hoping to find.

Yeap SLRs are godly in quality by comparison. Best of both worlds is to have both, PAS to have tossed in the glove box or pocket for whatever, SLR for situations where you want extreme quality.

Is yours an EOS series?
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Arkaign said:
Ah yeah! I've used a similar Kodak before, that's exactly the kind of cheap camera I was hoping to find.

Yeap SLRs are godly in quality by comparison. Best of both worlds is to have both, PAS to have tossed in the glove box or pocket for whatever, SLR for situations where you want extreme quality.

Is yours an EOS series?
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No I got the Nikon D40. Its the absolute bottom end. But yet have no reason to change.

If I ever get a compact it would be one of those super slim Samsungs. You can fit them in your coin pocket (if wearing jeans).
 
Arkaign

Arkaign

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shortylickens said:
No I got the Nikon D40. Its the absolute bottom end. But yet have no reason to change.

If I ever get a compact it would be one of those super slim Samsungs. You can fit them in your coin pocket (if wearing jeans).
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Nice!

If my boy's ES91 is anything to go by, Samsung seems to have some really good cheap cameras. My last cheapish camera was a $120 Nikon, before that a $150 Canon, and the Samsung is easily better than both.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Wait, I'm sorry. Nikon has one really small line.

http://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/compacts/nikon_cps01

Fits in your palm.

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CZroe

CZroe

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LessThanDan said:
I wrote a review for OMSI Omnibus Simulator.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RJ9H16M...ore=videogames
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I was sure that yours was a facetious review of some kind of data bus simulator used for electronic engineering until I saw that it was a real software driving simulator product.

Arkaign said:
Good review, marked helpful!

I don't write very many reviews, I just try to be informative and good honest feedback. The Vivitar was so horrible that I simply had to let people know to try to save someone else the same horrible fate that I had. It's my only 1-star review :) They really need a zero-star option.
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Haven't rad it yet, but you aren't just saying that because his username references a classic game, are you? ;)

Oyeve said:
Well, it is vivitar. Funny thing is I bought a vivitar digital camera around 5 years ago, the vivicam T25 or something like that, from newegg. It was 60 bucks and 12mp so I thought, what the hell, its cheap and vivitar so i didnt expect much. To my surprise the camera was/is excellent. Full metal body and real optical zoom. Has loads of features. I think this camera was made when vivitar was getting into digital and sold it cheap to get a leg into the market. Anyway, it still is in use to this day and I still think its great.
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Uhh, my friend's first digital camera in 2002 was a Vivitar. It was low cost but good for the money then too.
 
KidNiki1

KidNiki1

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CZroe said:
Haven't rad it yet, but you aren't just saying that because her username references a classic game, are you? ;)
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ftfy.

and, my name really is niki. :colbert:


back on topic, i think the funny reviews are amusing to read, but for an item i am seriously interested in, i tend to skip the snarky reviews when i am deciding whether or not to buy it. if it really seems like a tough call, i read the first few positive reviews, and then i read the first few 1 star reviews.
 
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