Re: [artshow_photo] Camera gift for college grad 'kid'

I don't think she needs expandability and while I really love Canon
myself [and have the S90] this sounds perfect since she tends [still]
not to be overly sensitive to her cameras [she dropped one in the
desert in Chile and of course it doesn't work now...

At 8:21 AM -0800 12/9/10, Michael Pearlman wrote:
>I have owned an Olympus 1030 for a few years and the thing has been bullet
>proof. So much so that I had a hard time reading the model number.
>Mine uses an Olympus chip that is pricey but I understand the newer models
>use regular SD cards. I taken mine hiking and dropped it, used it
>underwater and at times it's even been covered with mud. It's been biking,
>river running with me and the camera out of the raft a good part of the
>time.
>It's been with me Camel jockeying in the Middle East and up the Andes in
>Peru. The pictures are good if not great but certainly very usable. No
>RAW function but
>I can easily get 11x14's.

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