A tale of two cameras
I made the move from film to digital about ten years ago. I picked up a used Nikon Coolpix 950 from a fellow employee at MSFT and learned the ins and outs of digital and talk about the proverbial duck to water.
I wanted to move up to a "pro" camera as I had been shooting with an F2sb for about thirty years and had a large number of lenses. I knew about the D-1 but I also knew that they were coming out with the D-1x -- same body but with internal improvements.
I got the D-1x and fell in love -- except -- one afternoon, the strap slipped off my shoulder and the D-1x hit the pavement with a minimal impact (I still had the strap around my arm and I had lifted my arm to break the fall.
The camera was dead.
This happened about six months after I purchased it.
The repair cost me about $900.
I like to carry a small point-and-shoot for when the D-1 (or the D-90 I upgraded to) is not convenient. I had been using a Canon Powershot 650 but that had been trashed out on a trip and was not repairable. I picked up a Canon G-10 for its replacement last March. Awesome little camera.
A few weeks ago, while sitting in the car, something sticky oozed onto the protective shutter over the lens and the shutter would not open properly. Bummer.
I checked a local repair facility and it would be about $130 to fix. I checked with Canon and they said that the camera was still under warranty -- even for something that was done to the camera, not just a hardware failure.
I bundled the puppy off and got an email acknowledging its receipt a few days later. A couple days after that I received an email saying that it was fixed and on its way to me via UPS 2nd Day.
Picked it up today and I am very happy -- all of my settings were preserved and the camera works perfectly.
If I didn't have such a sizable investment in Nikon lenses (fisheye through 500mm plus a butt-load of macro) I would consider Canon for any future "pro" camera purchases...
Posted by DaveH at September 18, 2009 12:57 PM