Contemplating buying a stupidly expensive camera. help me decide.

In My Humble Opinion
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I currently have a fuji finepix 2600 zoom (£350 or £250, I can’t remember which). I am not fully satisfied with the quality of the pictures. They are ever so slightly blurry when viewed closely and being a person who downloads an awful lot of pictures from the internet I know what good quality digital camera pictures should look like.

On looking around a little I found a fuji s602 zoom (can’t remember the exact name) which is a more professional camera. Problem is it costs £700 and looks insanely complicated to use, and it probably eats a full set of batteries in 3 seconds (also, if I remember rightly - it doesn’t take rechargables!).

However, I downloaded a few sample pictures and on seeing them thought “I HAVE to have this camera”. the pictures were sharper and more vibrant than anything I’ve ever seen on the internet.

Then finding out that the camera doubles as a pretty decent digital camcorder (30 frames a second with sound) I was virtually decided.

then after a week or so of thinking, I realized that people would think I was stupid having such a good (expensive) camera, and I’d be too nervous about it getting nicked or damaged.

So I can’t decide.

Help.

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If your goal is to get razor sharp Internet pictures, then get online and look for the cheapest/sharpest camera. Also, it should have high contrast. (The Fuji might be the best deal, but I doubt it.)

You might want to invest a couple hours asking what it is you want. For most people, other things besides how inherently “sharp” a camera is.

E.g., a good tripod makes a difference. Filters, properly used make a difference. Learning Photoshop well makes a difference.

Finally, as a guy with, oh, I guess 4 currently workable cameras, I must say that the return on investment goes steadily down as camera features and cost go up. Double the price on a good $500 camera, get a 10% better photo. In some circumstances. In others, photos might look the same.