Idea: digicam kits w/ memory not charger!

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It's lame that digicam manufacturers provide kits with 16MB memory cards
and a NiMH battery charger.

Most people who have joined the modern technological age (in which we live
today ;-) already have a battery charger, and often they have a better one
than the manufacturers provide in these kits.

Whereas the 16MB card they include in the kit holds 3 high-res images,
or 0 (zero) raw images. That's downright silly.

Why don't they give an option of larger memory card with no battery charger?

For instance, a 256MB xD card costs about $40 while the Fuji BC-NH02
with two 2000 mAh AA NiMH batteries costs about $39.

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Most dSLRs don't include anything... mem or chargers...

T.

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In article <43304109@news.meer.net>, Bill Tuthill <can@spam.co> wrote:

> My main point is that including a 16 MB memory card
> with a 6 to 9 Mp camera is downright insulting,
> and a waste of a memory card.

Right after I got my 10D, Canon sent me a free memory card. It was made
by Lexar, so it's top quality, but it was only 96MB. For someone who
shoots RAW, as I do, a card that will store 14 pics ain't real useful.
But, the price was right.

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Mark B. wrote:
> <tlai909@visto.com> wrote in message
> news:1127185098.415077.112600@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Most dSLRs don't include anything... mem or chargers...
>>
>> T.
>>
>
> Canon DSLRs all include a charger. I don't remember if mine had a
> card or not. To me, the only reason they would include a small
> memory card is so you can check the operation of the camera. Other
> than that, yes it's pretty useless.
>
> Mark

My Canon dSLRs did include a charger, did not include a memory card
that I remember.

All my pocketable P&S cameras (Canon S500, Dimmidge Xs) included both.

My more-big P&S (Nikon 995, 5000, 5700, 8700) included charger but no
card that I remember.

Looks to me as if the idea is to make the simpler ones as simple as
possible, obviating the need to purchase a card to start getting
results. Seems appropriate to me.

--
Frank ess