olympus D-510 just bit the dust

[mx-mom@adobeforums.com]

I have to replace my olympus D-510 as the on off switch stopped working
it will cost over 100 to replace, so i figured i might as well get a new camera. I like the pictures it took, but it would be nicer to have something a little faster at shooting as I take pictures at motocross events. I also take pictures for web use and do a little dabbling in graphics w/pictures.
I know this subject has been hashed over, but I am having a hard time finding links in the search.
I need to make this purchase soon as I have a new job taking pictures for a classified ad website.
Thanks so much for your help.
Mx-MoM

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Read the "New Gear. Drool!!!!" thread.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

... something a little faster at shooting as I take pictures at motocross
events...




In that respect nothing can touch the Nikon D2-H <http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_d2h.asp>

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

The Kyocera is much faster, but may not have better optics.

[Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com]

The D-510 was a small US$400 camera. The Nikon D2h is a full size US$3000 SLR camera made specifically for professional sports photographers. At US$850 I would suggest the Nikon Coolpix 8700 or for US$1000 the Canon Powershot Pro1 in a compact digicam. In a full size SLR digicam check out the Nikon D70 and the Canon Rebel 300 for around US$1000-1500. Below US$800 I think you will generally find the same frustrating slow shutter operation that the D-510 suffered.

[Phosphor@adobeforums.com]

The real issue is that it's insane that the on/off switch crapped out, if it is indeed the switch itself. Reliable, waterproof, corrosionproof, dirtproof switches that last for decades aren't expensive nor exotic.

[Phosphor@adobeforums.com]

The real issue is that it's insane that the on/off switch crapped out, if it is indeed the switch itself. Reliable, waterproof, corrosionproof, dirtproof switches that last for decades aren't expensive nor exotic.

I'm getting really tired of equipment that is manufactured with a bad or cheap essential component that takes the entire unit down when it fails, and then costs almost as much (or more) to fix than it would to replace it. More junk for the landfill.

[Phosphor@adobeforums.com]

Ummm...Ooops.

I'd fix it if I could.

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

Costs too much?

[Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com]

Phosphor-

My many Nikons have been awesome in their tolerance of aggressive treatment. The one exception was an on-off switch on an N90s. I was shooting an art show and my wine glass was jiggled such that ONE drop of white wine bounced out of the glass precisely on to the camera's on/off switch and instantly and permanently shorted it out; dead camera, expensive fix. The same camera (at least I think it was the same one) later successfully endured about 50 partial salt water floodings of its underwater housing during an underwater photo project in Central America. Go figure.

[Graham_Phillips@adobeforums.com]

Which wine label was it?

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

ONE drop of white wine




should have been drinking red

[John_McKee@adobeforums.com]

Had the same problem...
Put a rubber band over the lens cover to put more pressure on the on/off switch..
Went to the C-3000.. It has a real lens cap.. uses AA's and the same SmartMedia card.