She has been with us since early 2003. She travelled to various places with us all over the world: UK, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Gold Coast, ...etc.
Her strong metal case survived various bumps and drops in the past few years. She helped us captured thousands of photos, especially during our construction process. Unfortunately she couldn't hang on long enough to witness the completion of our house...
Her model is S40 (4 Mega Pixels) and she cost me around $1200 in 2003. Thanks to modern technology, now a similar but much newer design A470 only cost $149 and comes with much higher resolution (7.1 Mega Pixels)...
I can't imagine how am I going to continue monitoring our construction without a proper camera. My mobile Nokia E65 has a small camera, but the resolution is no way close to a proper camera and without any flash lights, I can't take any photo under dark condition.
Have to start shopping around for a new one, with limited budget (thanks to the many interest rate rises recently) don't think I can afford a high end one. Noticed Olympus just released a full range of 8 Mega Pixels cameras all with 5x optical zooms, which is much higher than the others. But one thing I don't quite like is, they only use "xD" cards which wasn't a popular choice. Have to do some more research...
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Hi there,
Do not by Olympus, I ended up buying one recencly and had to return it, as you will find out your old one was better that the new one.
They have problem with light control and don't take such a nice pictures.
thanks for the info, that's a bit scary...
my original concern was simply don't want to buy a special memory card that's not compatible with other devices as most of them are using SD or micro-SD...
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