Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

The poor old Sony cybershot has been through the wars with me and is starting to come unraveled. I’m starting to look for a new camera, but researching past and present camera models is such a pain. Can anyone offer suggestions?

I’m looking for something cheap-and-cheerful, with good lowlight sensitivity that also fits easily in a pocket (no hulking DSLRs for now thanks), bonus points if it takes good pictures. Megapixels rating (I have learned) being also almost completely irrelevant.

whether it’s a new model or suggestions for any oldish-school relatively high-end classic that might be findable/heavily-discounted on ebay is a fine idea too. (I’ve had some excellent luck with the latter strategy recently)

help! thanks!

UPDATE – Thanks for the great tips so far, keep em’ coming this post could turn in to a good resource. AND as reward…
your song of the day: who else? The Hidden Cameras!
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Whoo I’m up for nomination in the obviously very important Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Business Blog. I’m a little slow off the mark and should have realized this earlier, but today is the last day to vote in round one.

The details are secret but as of this day, the site reports that some far-and-away leading blog in this category has 500ish votes and meanwhile the most trailing blog has a current total of 4 votes. From this I inescapably conclude that at least 3 of you have voted for me already! I beam with pride.

now go vote for me some more

Last week I wrote about the “death” of email which through a chain of events (thanks Joshua) put me in touch with Lars Ploughmann who by coincidence was posting on the same idea at the exact same time. The main difference being his post being much more thorough round-up of arguments around the issue than my quick post. Go read Lars’ discussion here.

In August of this year, I published some thoughts on how effective email is when it is used as the only or main communication tool for a project. The post became part of a discussion on multiple blogs so I shall try to pull the arguments together and provide my inchoate conclusion.

I can also do Lars’ infographic one better, I was meeting with a banking industry executive and colleague of mine last week who had no fewer than 14 thousand accumulated unread (an not spam) messages in his outlook inbox (of an amazing 140 thosand in total, “hey at least I see 90% of my email” he protested). I don’t think this is so uncommon, the enterprise is clearly reaching an oversaturation of email. It’s time to start working on new tools don’t you think?