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Canon FS10

Well, we went ahead and bought a camera today.  Thanks for those who offered tips.  We settled on the Canon FS10.

Here were the major decision points:

- We didn’t want to spend more than $500
- Flash memory has no moving parts
- 8GB of storage is 2.5 hours at normal quality - enough for our purposes
- Expansion SD/SDHC Memory Card
- Canon has an excellent legacy for great picture quality
- MPEG format a pain to edit, but we don’t plan to do a lot of editing
- Expansion stereo mic
- Good reviews for this camera

Our purpose is to use the camera for some work/school stuff, kid stuff, and maybe some political stuff.  This should work fine. 

On a side note, this purchase reminded me of how difficult the consumer electronics business must be.  We did our homework and narrowed it down to a couple of brands and required feature set.  Then I headed out to the stores to check out the cameras in real living color.  I went to Sears and settled on this camera.  It was listed at $499.  I called Wendy and she hit the internet and found the same camera with two-day delivery for about $50 less.  We bought it online.  Sears has a “guaranteed lowest price” guarantee, but given that I stood there for half an hour and nobody ever came over to help me, I didn’t want to spend the time to track someone down and bargain. 

We can’t wait to get our new camera!

Posted by Owen at 2046 hrs
Technology

1. Congrats on the new toy!  I am not surprised that you got no service at Sears.  I quit shopping there because of their lack of service.

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