"Shenine Livingstone" <sl001h2770@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Has anybody here owned this camera and could you tell me if it is worth
> buying.  All the write ups I have read make the camera look good but it is 
> a
> lot of money to pay out so some advice would be appreciated.
>
>
Shenine

I've had the s7000 zoom for just over a year and it's a very good camera. I 
leave it set to the raw mode just about all the time and it produces very 
good, very sharp images. Of course you need to have a large compact flash 
card if you are going to do that, but with the price of memory cards having 
dropped through the floor that's no real problem. I've found it an easy 
camera to get used to. It's ot the lightest of digital cameras and it can, 
when you use the lcd a lot, run through batteries very quickly. But it is, 
in my opinion, worth buying

Martin