She just spent $350.00 to get her camera back after it broke! It is a Cannon D40 so was REAL expensive when she bought it brand new 2 years ago, I think.

My Canon 40D (D40 is a Nikon I think) has just broke. It certainly was expensive when I bought it just over a year ago, and more painful in that the 12 month warranty had expired. But thankfully I got it with a 3 year warranty, which I didn't realize at the time. So lucky for me. But NOT lucky that these power bills are so high in running computers with power hungry ATI cards. Once I get a hundred billion credits I'm going to stop, I'm telling you.

I'm glad I've only bought nvidia cards here in the last few years, Thankfully the Canon A540 still works after about 2 years, It just likes batteries. :D

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I got a Fuji S700 a couple years ago and it's nice. I get towards 400 pictures or so on standard batteries /little flash usage. Nice camera and no problems for me.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.