My trusty old Konica Minolta Dimage G400 finally bit the dust today. It has taken thousands of photos over the last 3½ years, and now it decides that all the photos I take will have lines across them.

The only way to get rid of the stripes is to zoom in all the way using optical zoom, but still the auto exposure does not work well. Having looked around some forums etc, this seems to be a fairly common problem with this model.

When I bought it in May 2004 it was the fastest camera on the market for start-up to taking a picture. 0.7 seconds was the quoted speed, and this was achievable if you set it on the lowest possible resolution, and turned off the autofocus. Under normal use, it was pretty fast, and certainly much faster than most digital cameras. Incidentally, this is one of my gripes with camera phones – they take ages from you deciding to take a picture to actually capturing the moment.

Well, now it is time for a new camera, but there are too many to chose from! If you have any suggestions please tell me!

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