Digital Home Thoughts - News & Reviews for the Digital Home

The following is a post I made on my perosnal blog a couple weeks back, in regards to my frustration and dissatisfaction with my Canon camera's. Jason asked if I would be interested in sharing this with the Digital Home Thoughts community as there is a great interest in camera's and it could prove valuable information to anyone thinking of buying a camera in the near future. Since this post was written, I have purchased a Nikon s700 P&S camera and have been very happy with it. And for the record, I'm still waiting for my Canon to return from repair.

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but time has run out and Canon has proved to me that they don't know anything about building a quality camera. The overall pictures and performance of their cameras are good, but the build quality and life expectancy is poor to say the least.

My first digital camera was the Canon G1 - a great semi-pro camera. I purchased the extended warranty on it - something I normally wouldn't do. However this time the price of the camera, $1300 or so, made me think twice and it turned out to be a good thing. About 6 months into the extended warranty the camera would no longer charge. I sent it in for repair and it turns out some small part of the internal charger died and had to be replaced. Total cost would have been $350. :-( Thankfully it was covered and I didn't pay a dime - just lost the use of the camera for a month. Read more...