So you prefer the ones made in Korea?

"Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:beup5e$pph$1@catv02.starcat.ne.jp...
> Hi Tom, Hi Cat -Meow!
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> > Minus[es]: dark display outside - high current consumption
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> Yeah!!!  When are these companies going to get around to solving
> the "dark display in bright light" issue?  What bummer this is.
> I mean sure you can bring the "ViewFinder" window up to your eye
> or maybe something as elaborate as using Video Glasses...   But
> wouldn't it be nice if...
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> > > hi , im about to buy my 1st digital camera and I will be using it
mainly for
> > > family snaps to be viewed via a DVD player or pc , having shopped
around for
> > > a short while and learned absolutely zilch , I wondered if any of you
guys
> > > could recommend /  deter me from spending 150.00 (appx) on the Samsung
> > > digimax240 as I cant see much wrong with it at that price and for my
usage ,
> > > but having said that I really do know very little about digital
photography.
> > > anyway hope you don't mind me asking an thanks in advance.
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> MEeeeeeEEeeeeOoooOOoooWw!  Which translated for us humans means:
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>     Try to stay away from the Japanese and Korean Electronic "junk"
>     manufacturers if at all possible and go with a maker that has
>     produced a line of 35mm SLR cameras in the past.  The reasons
>     for this are GENERAL QUALITY and SUPPORT.  (Notice how one begats
>     the other.)
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>      1) Companies like Nikon, Olympus, Canon, Minolta, Lecia,
>         Contax, Pentax, Fuji, (Kodak?, Polaroid?) offer products
>         of excellent to good quality manufactur and staff an
>         excellent to good support team with customer friendly
>         policies.
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>      2) Companies like Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Casio, Toshiba,
>         Fujitsu, Epson, Kyocera, Ricoh,  and  Sharp, usually
>         offer products engineered to fail rapidly (ie. fair
>         to poor quality) and thier support teams /almost/ always
>         follow a policy set up under the theme: The Company
>         Must Always Profit -- Customer Satisfaction comes second!
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>     This is not really just opinion as I got to work with alot
>     companies from both groups inside various sections as an
>     independant contractor not all that long ago.  IMO, the only
>     reason you would buy a digital (snap) camera from group 2)
>     is if you were a Japanese Nationalist _and_ didn't care that
>     much about quality or product life cycles.  This defines
>     the majority of Japanese citizens btw.
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> Cats are such amazing creatures and can say so much with such
> little effort.
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