Article 71288 of rec.photo.digital:
From: frcn@żNOSPAM?quiknet.com (Randy G.)
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Subject: I did it.... Now help me! Oh, the bills! The BillS!
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Well, after all the talking, discussing, debating, endless hours spent
pissing off the Nikon USA techs and some Nikon CP900 owners (which was
actually a lot of fun), and bad mouthing the Kodak DC260 and Nikon
CP900 among other cameras, I finally took the big step and ordered my
camera today...

I know that after reading my posts here it would seem that I own at
least half-a-dozen cameras. This apparent knowledge comes not from
experience but from countless (and I do mean countless!) hundreds of
hours spent creating spreadsheets (first for specs and then for
prices), reading nearly every post here at rec.photo.digital and
responding to nearly half of them (or so it would seem), meandering
through every website that had just about anything to do with digital
cameras (I have over 50 DC bookmarks), reading every user's comments I
could find, the reviews at DCRP and Image Resource, tracing every lead
at Steve's Digital Camera News... well- you get the idea.

Over the last two months (that seem more like two years- just ask my
wife) I have seriously wanted three (actually- make that four)
different cameras at one time or another. The Oly D500 was my first
choice, then prices came down and the D600 looked good. I soiled more
than one shirt drooling over the initial hype concerning the DC260,
and the CP900 images always made that a possible choice.

Well, now I have taken that final step and have soiled more than a
shirt this time over the bill that will be dropped at my doorstep in
about a month. With all the new composite materials they use in
cameras today, the bill just may weigh more than the camera.

"So what the hell did you buy?" you must be asking after I have
spilled the tension-building pile of doggy pucky above... I have
purchased the Nikon CP900, the Microtech combination CF/PC card
parallel port card reader, and a Microtech 15mb CF card.

But not so fast! Don't think you will be rid of me that quickly. First
I will need various amounts of neck-rubbing and head-patting to keep
the tension headaches down to a minimum after dropping the total of
$894.56 (which, come to think about it, actually is not a bad price
for all of that), and the tension of waiting for those three VIPs to
show at my door (Very Important Packages). 

I suppose that now I can feel better about the three sets of batteries
and charger that I have already received from Battery City. Much like
the protrubance of a male teenager in sexually-heated excitement, my
batteries are awatiting a dark cavern into which they can discharge.

As a much larger man than myself (in more ways than one- just ask
Maria S.) once said... "I'll be back!"

And you can just about bet the farm that by the end of August there
will be a digital camera section at my website. It may not be full of
technically-correct discussions of CCD cooling techniques but
hopefully it will be at least as entertaining as this article has
been!

For now I think I could use a couple of Extra Strength Excedrin...
  
    From Randy....  AKA "-ED" at the....
Feather River Canyon News - "Fruit Of The Plume" 
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