samsung digimax240

[r.@u.knowtherest harrys catt]

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.

[Thomas Taler]

Hello,

i've bought this Digicam last Friday (179 ? [124Ł] in Hamburg,, Germany) and
i'm quite satisfied with it. Plus: Color and sharpness - easy to handle -
nice looking
Minus: dark display outside - high current consumption
So, I Think it's O.K. for what You have in mind. Lot's of fun!

Greetings, Tom

[Tesselator]

Hi Tom, Hi Cat -Meow!

> Minus[es]: dark display outside - high current consumption

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...

> > 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.
> >

MEeeeeeEEeeeeOoooOOoooWw! Which translated for us humans means:

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.)

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.

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!

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.

Cats are such amazing creatures and can say so much with such
little effort.

O :-)

[Gymmie Bob]

So you prefer the ones made in Korea?

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[Tesselator]

Hehe.. it doesn't really seem to matter these days /where/ they're
made. The Die, line-cad, materials, and QC transplant very well in
the digital age. So that leaves design, ergonomics, price, and
support.

Amoung those I /personally/ feel support and design are the most
important so I lean twards Nikon from amoung the "good" companies
I have listed there.

The "Bad" companies I have listed tend to fair poorly when you
consider Materials and QC as well usually offering poor to hideously
terrible support. Often thier lack of expirience in producing a line
of SLR cameras shows through in thier design of digital cameras so
also VERY often thier design sucks as well. [I've watched as some
design teams were shot down by market engineering. Sad!] So I guess
I'm saying these "bad" companies deliberately make a poorly designed
camera with low quality parts offering very inferior support just to
make a buck. I guess ya can't blame them; the purpose of any company
is to make money. Just the "good" companies don't seem to use your
ignorance against you in order to do it. So as long as suckers without
a clue buy Sony digital camera products we'll keep getting crap offered
to us in the consumer lines. Best just to stay away I think...

> So you prefer the ones made in Korea?

> > Hi Tom, Hi Cat -Meow!