Thanks Tony I always said the service centres are p's takers on their prices while flashing a camera near the service price. What a good way for them to encourage purchase of another camera. Seems with that sort of service price cameras are now throw away items.
I'll be looking at a Nikon coolpix mainly for stills it has a wider angle lens than the camcorder, I'll get my brother in law who lives in France to nip down to Carrefour see what their prices are. I bought my video camera in Le Clerc last year cheaper than here. With 5 cassettes, usb,TV link up, video transfer cable, Pinnacle studio 8 film maker 2x1GB 1x512mb SD cards, power/charger £215 the lot, Oh! forgot the free carry case big one, here I was quoted £199,99 for camera then by the time all others added on would have been £270. and they are end of line ones as the new model came out as they said in France.
Bob
September 2008