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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I have a less fancy Nikon (Coolpix 4600) and was recently with a friend when she bought a new digital camera. She went in there, intent on buying an equivalent Canon. I was staying neutral but the sales-dude started lobbying for the Nikon instead. The benefits he stated include the fact that Nikon is one of the few companies that uses non-proprietary memory cards. Some also require proprietary batteries, apparently. The sales-dude also said that Nikon is the only maker that also produces their own lenses. Obviously, that has been part of Nikon's strength in the past. I also found the Canon my friend wanted to buy to be much less intuitive and fussier than the Nikon. Trash required navigating a few levels of software, whereas the Nikon has a Trash button.
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Yes, a downside to the Panasonic Lumix is the proprietary battery, which is very hard to find if you want to buy an extra. Also, the firewire cable has a non-standard end on the camera side, so even though i have a jillion firewire cables for every manner of equipment, including my Olympus digital, I only have one that works for my Lumix, and somehow, whenver the camera and the computer are in the same room, the cable is never with them. Sometimes downloading pictures is like trying to schedule a fucking conference call.
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