It's only happened once (after about 200 shots and 4 or 5 uses) but,
just in case your wife or daughter should encounter it, my own WB650
locked up on me and became totally unresponsive even to the power
button. I had to reboot it by pulling and reinstalling the battery. I
also lost one file from that session which I assume (but don't know) was
probably coincident with the lockup. I didn't notice the lost file
until I tried to review it somewhat later which produced a file error
message on the first try. After that the image number just disappeared
from the sequence.
Moose says he has seen no such problem and has a lot more shooting
history with his than I do. Let's hope my one experience was an
outlier. But that wouldn't keep me from buying the camera again. I
managed to buy a small leather belt-clip case with two pouches that just
exactly fits the WB650 and my cell phone. Now I carry the camera and
phone wherever I go. It's a big switch for me to have a camera all of
the time.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/1/2011 3:25 PM, Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote: ----- I recently bought a Samsung WB650 afer
> Moose sung its praises here not long ago. The WB650 has an amazingly
> long zoom going from 24-360mm equivalent. -----
>
> I bought one for my wife after consulting her. She missed her Nikon
> Coolpix 3100 since it met some Mediterranean water back in 2007. She
> was not fond of the Olympus Stylus Digitals I collected (I have all 6
> colors, and even a color that should not exist). We ended up looking
> on the Internet for new compact megazooms and concluded that the
> WB650 was one of the best for a great price. It surely does not
> disappoint and within one week after having one I ordered another one
> for our daughter. She is also very fond of it. We ended up paying
> €150,- for the first one and only €125,- for the second one.
>
> OTOH, for my (to be) daughter in law's 18th birthday I bought a
> barely used E-400 double lens kit, also for only €150, which I think
> is a real steal. She is more serious about photography and does not
> mind the extra "trouble" of using a DSLR, since she wants to invest
> that in getting better results and possibilities.
>
> Wiliam
>
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