Buying a camera: the conclusion

[thristian]

On Saturday, I decided I’d deliberated long enough, and trekked across the city to buy a Nikon D5000. Unfortunately, it seems I managed to get one of the ones subject to the recall, so I’ll be ringing them up this week to find out what the procedure is

Comments

[tau_iota_mu_c]

I'm glad to see the recall isn't because the cameras are of the explody glass variety.

So now the trick is to put your camera on an interval timer and get nice time lapse clouds rolling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-4zNb34Fg

[thristian]

Uh, wow.

I guess you *do* have a certain advantage of location. ;)

What camera do you have, out of curiosity?

[tau_iota_mu_c]

A ricoh R7 caprila el-cheapo pointy and clicky. Probably got it for 1/10th of the price of yours :)

I agonised for a week over what to get for my last camera. I wanted something that had 10x optical (duh!) zoom and could fit in my cycling jersey pocket. Then I saw this one which had an interval timer, and all of a sudden that became a requirement in my specs and my list dropped to 3 cameras, all of the same brand, so I went for the one in the middle. Too easy.

Then I dropped it twice in tasmanian rivers. I can still sea a bit of tasmania's tannin on the inside of the lense.