--- Carolyn Rodosta <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday the Circuit City sales lady discouraged me from looking at > Sony or Canon. She said they are the most frequently returned brands > returned for mechanical problems. She tried steering me towards a > Kodak that came with a small printer. > > Carolyn > Carolyn, Some particular model of any brand of camera may have a bad record, but as far as I know any of the major brands -- Sony, Canon, Kodak, as well as Nikon and Olympus, maybe others -- are generally good cameras. I would look for a camera with features I want, then look for comments and reviews about that model. In my opinion, I'm usually a bit skeptical of the "comes with a printer" packages. The printers are usually not the best -- you are likely to find you want a better one after you've used your camera a while. The camera & computer companies give away printers in order to lock you into using their brand of ink and supplies. But the printers do cost something, so you are paying that extra cost for the camera, for a printer that you may not really want. Better, I think, to choose camera and printer separately. Kraig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail