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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/24/2003 :  23:16:21  Show Profile
A slight tangent... My favorite rant about Consumers is that they recently decided the Volkswagen Passat was their top-ranked family sedan... However, in their listings of used cars to choose, NOT ONE VW product is listed, and in their list of used cars to avoid, virtally EVERY VW product is listed! Go figure! (I owned two VW products--never again.)
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OJ
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Response Posted - 11/25/2003 :  13:19:41  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i>
<br />A slight tangent... My favorite rant about Consumers is that they recently decided the Volksagen Passat was their top-ranked family sedan... However, in their listings of used cars to choose, NOT ONE VW product is listed, and in their list of used cars to avoid, virtally EVERY VW product is listed! Go figure! (I owned two VW products--never again.)
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Yep, last yeat Volvo introduced its first SUV and won SUV of the year award . . . this year VW introduced theirs and it won SUV of the year award . . . go figure!
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jsummerfield
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Response Posted - 11/25/2003 :  22:14:19  Show Profile
The Flash Memory was among the selection criteria. I had purchased an all-in-one printer that already supports three different flash memories. Compact Flash Memory was among the three. My Canon has a bit of sound and video too.

I am interested in a new SUV with Real four-wheel-drive off-road performance. I doubt that it will be a Volvo or VW but am open to suggestions. My Central Texas property access is optimum with 4WD.
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Doug
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Response Posted - 11/25/2003 :  22:20:00  Show Profile
I'll wade in- For work I take on average 10-50 digital pics a day. Also take more than a few outside of work. I have an Olympus D460 zoom and a HP C618.
The olympus is slow. That leads to missed and fuzzy shots.Battery use is OK if you don't use the screen a lot.
The HP is faster and has delivered far fewer bad pictures. A great feature of the HP is that you can take a shot, and it will flash a 2-3 seconf picture on the screen. Lets you take pictures at arm's length withour keeping the screen on all the time. All in all, I've been a little dissapointed in the Olympus, and very happy with the HP.
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 11/26/2003 :  10:11:24  Show Profile
"intereseted in a SUV with real four-wheel-drive off-road performance."

IMHO... Get a 4 door pickup truck or an SUV built on a truck chassis.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/26/2003 :  17:22:42  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jsummerfield</i>
<br />I am interested in a new SUV with Real four-wheel-drive off-road performance. I doubt that it will be a Volvo or VW but am open to suggestions. My Central Texas property access is optimum with 4WD.
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The Toyota 4Runner is a great candidate--a truck-based, true off-road machine, and you can't beat Toyota for brute-force reliability.
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frank679
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Response Posted - 11/30/2003 :  20:33:42  Show Profile

I have been out of the country for a few weeks and have not had access to the forum so my input may be too late. Photography has always been a hobby of mine. Mostly I use a Canon EOS 650 35mm, but also have digital. I bought a Nikon Coolpix 750 which I think is now the 2100. It is a 2mp camera and when used with the right printer and paper is very close in quality to my Canon. It is very small and can easily fit in a pocket. The camera has many options and with a 256 mb card you can take pictures to your heart's content
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eric.werkowitz
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Response Posted - 11/30/2003 :  22:37:29  Show Profile
I'm preparing to buy my first digital camera. It's going to be an Olympus Camedia C-4000. It only has a 3x optical zoom, but it has a 4M pixel focal plane and it allows you to fully control the aperture and shutter speed, it's NOT exclusively a point and click, although it will work in that mode. It takes AA batteries, but uses the Olympus Smart Media cards that have older technology. I think they are limited to 128Mb at about $40 each. At $350, I think it is a very good buy. I know from experience with my Canon SLR, that the bigger the lens, the heavier the camera. The heavier the camera, the less likely you are to have it with you when that great photo op presents itself. Bottom line: be sure to assess how YOU are likely to use the camera BEFORE you buy. Else you are likely to pay, say $678, for features that you won't really use, when a $350 camera will do 98% of want you want. (I'm sorry, that's the engineer in me speaking!)

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