Olympus replacement

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I dropped and damaged my Olympus Camedia C-1400 XL, and it is beyond
repair. I'm claiming on my insurance for this, the insurance company
originally offered an Olympus C370 claiming that it was equivalent to my
old 1400 XL

I disagreed with this and told them so, they are now offering an Olympus
C765 zoom. This seems much better and I think I will take it, but before
I do can anyone else advise please?


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Les Ashton

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Les Ashton wrote:
> I dropped and damaged my Olympus Camedia C-1400 XL, and it is beyond
> repair. I'm claiming on my insurance for this, the insurance company
> originally offered an Olympus C370 claiming that it was equivalent to my
> old 1400 XL
>
> I disagreed with this and told them so, they are now offering an Olympus
> C765 zoom. This seems much better and I think I will take it, but before
> I do can anyone else advise please?
>
>
> --
> Les Ashton

Actually the C370 (D535 in North Am.) is superficially very similar to
your old C1400/D620L spec-wise - it's a 3X zoom, 3.3 Mpixel camera.
You're right to complain, though, the C370 is a toy compared to the
C1400. Personally I'd want something more like the Oly C5500 Sport as a
reasonable replacement; the C1400 wasn't top of the line but it wasn't
a point-n-shoot either.

The C765 is a 10X zoom 3.9 Mpixel camera (xD also - you won't find any
cameras that use Smartmedia anymore); picture quality is supposed to be
good, and that camera series has a lot of fans. It's a bit bigger than
the C370, actually about 1/3 larger, but it's a better camera, and
still half the weight of the C1400. It's not quite what the C1400 was
all about, but you might just like it - it's still a point-n-shoot, but
it's a really GOOD point-n-shoot.

ECM

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In message <1119467765.420694.210310@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, ecm
<thedeepabyss@whoever.com> writes
>
>Les Ashton wrote:
>> I dropped and damaged my Olympus Camedia C-1400 XL, and it is beyond
>> repair. I'm claiming on my insurance for this, the insurance company
>> originally offered an Olympus C370 claiming that it was equivalent to my
>> old 1400 XL
>>
>> I disagreed with this and told them so, they are now offering an Olympus
>> C765 zoom. This seems much better and I think I will take it, but before
>> I do can anyone else advise please?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Les Ashton
>
>Actually the C370 (D535 in North Am.) is superficially very similar to
>your old C1400/D620L spec-wise - it's a 3X zoom, 3.3 Mpixel camera.
>You're right to complain, though, the C370 is a toy compared to the
>C1400. Personally I'd want something more like the Oly C5500 Sport as a
>reasonable replacement; the C1400 wasn't top of the line but it wasn't
>a point-n-shoot either.
>
>The C765 is a 10X zoom 3.9 Mpixel camera (xD also - you won't find any
>cameras that use Smartmedia anymore); picture quality is supposed to be
>good, and that camera series has a lot of fans. It's a bit bigger than
>the C370, actually about 1/3 larger, but it's a better camera, and
>still half the weight of the C1400. It's not quite what the C1400 was
>all about, but you might just like it - it's still a point-n-shoot, but
>it's a really GOOD point-n-shoot.
>
>ECM
>

Thanks to all for the advice, after looking in to things I will settle
for the C765.
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Les Ashton