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August 23, 2007
My camera buying techniques
Step 1. Ask the User Experience Design Team at work which cameras they recommend.
Step 2. Look up each camera on Amazon. Browse to the "Your Amazon" area, click on "Your Browsing History" in the subnavigation, click the compare button for each camera I want to compare the product info on.
Step 3. Surf over to Flickr. Locate the "Camera Finder" feature. View photo samples from cameras I'm interested in. What helps the most is looking at photos taken by the average user. Compare stats on how many photos are taken with each camera by how many people so I can be assured this is a camera that will be easy to pack with me.
Unfortunately the Canon 20D didn't make the Entrepreneur's Wife budget at this time. I'll keep dreaming. My reality camera surprisingly turned out to be a Fuji.
Big kudos to Flickr for camera buying help.
Posted by jana at August 23, 2007 10:23 PM
Comments
Hey, don't forget http://dpreview.com -- the premier source for all camera info. Also, I saw Canon had come out with a new G9 -- might be well worth a look. Seems promising!
Posted by: Michael McDaniel at August 24, 2007 12:35 PM
For Pete's sake, I hope you really did finally buy a camera. Otherwise, I'm coming over there right now and giving you one my old Kodak 110.
Posted by: dunsany at August 24, 2007 6:17 PM