Mark Gordon
Member
I think I bought the last one in Sydney in mid 2005, following owning a 6900 for 4 year. I had two specific requirements for a camera - firstly that it took AA batteries (invaluable if you are stuck with flat proprietary batteries in the middle of nowhere, and soured by my experience with the 6900's poor battery life and expensive NP80 batteries), and secondly that it would accept a barrel and filter to protect dust getting into the zoom mechanism. I am often in less than ideal conditions fro cameras, and this is vital. A have a colleague who used one without this protection, and the mechanism did fail. I have had no problems with the camera, find it easy to use and the picture quality is great. Hopefully it will last me a long time - from looking at them and reading reviews it appears the later models in this line are not as good.
Problems:
I still do not like digital viewfinders, and the autofocus can be confused in difficult conditions. The manual focus is next to useless due to the digital viewfinder. The next step would be a DSLR, however the portability of DLSR's is not ideal.
Problems:
I still do not like digital viewfinders, and the autofocus can be confused in difficult conditions. The manual focus is next to useless due to the digital viewfinder. The next step would be a DSLR, however the portability of DLSR's is not ideal.
