24 days to go!
Yep, 24 days to go till I skive off work for a week and feck off to New York. I haven’t been there for five years, so I’m really looking forward to it. You may have seen my post earlier in the month about my Nikon camera that self-destructed. I’m still pissed at them, but that does make for a great excuse to upgrade when I’m in New York 
I’m going to drop into B&H, who are widely regarded as the best camera shop in the city, and have excellent prices. I bought a 64MB (phwoar!) Sony MemoryStick and battery for my long-gone 1.3 megapixel Sony Cybershot there five years ago. This time I plan to get a Fuji S6500fd, known as S6000fd in the US for some stupid marketing reason. B&H price: $400 (approx. €308 at the time of writing). Ireland price: Bend over and take it (i.e. roughly 500 euros).
/drool
Paul on January 23rd, 2007
It’s 410 euros in argos. And this lumix one with a rrp of bout 450 is 340 from komplett.
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=321985
Steve on January 23rd, 2007
That’s quite good for a high street shop. I can’t actually find it at all on the Irish Argos website, but that’s not surprising. Their search engine is rubbish. Local places here (Sam MacAuley pharmacies etc) are looking for €550, although they do throw in a 512MB memory card (about €15 from 7dayshop.com) and battery charger for that price.
I already have suitable 2500mAh NiMH batteries and a charger so, no thanks to that
Feckoff.net » New York on February 9th, 2007
[...] I had posted a while back about the camera I plan to buy when I go to New York next week. Bok has since persuaded me to go for an SLR (he twisted my rubber arm) over the fixed-lens Fuji. I’m going to pick up a Nikon D50, 18-55mm Nikkor lens and a cheap 70-300mm Sigma telephoto lens. This does blow my original budget out of the water but I think it’ll be a lot better in the long run. [...]