"Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote:

>     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!

That's a general problem these days. I never thought I would buy
a product from Panasonic, for this reason.

But then the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 costs about a third of
comparable cameras and is still better because of its long zoom
and image stabilizer, so I had no choice. And so far it is
holding out rather well, travelled with me through gruesome
conditions in east Africa, being subjected to the shaking,
jolting jeep, to heat, dust and my relentless use, and it's
still working. (See http://www.michna.com/kenya2003/ for some
photos.) If it keeps working for one or two more years it has
already earned its living, because then I'll buy a new one
anyway.

Hans-Georg

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