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I suffer from 'early adopter' syndrome. This seems to be an affliction suffered only by males. I have to have the full range of techno kit, and it must be as state of the art as possible. Flat screen monitor. Yes please. Just make sure that is has triple DVI connectors, the highest native resolution possible and a response time of 30 mbs. A twenty one inch screen would be nice too. I have a 42' plasma TV that dominates my living room like an elephant in a toilet cubicle. My digital camera has a resolution of 7.1 million pixels. My ipod mini is the 6gb model, not the crappy little 4gb. My DVD has 7.1 surround sound. I am a total fucking technohead.
Do I need most of this stuff? No. Can I afford it? No way. I undulge in a practice known as 'man maths'. This constitutes sitting down with a calculator and working out that my prospective purchase isn't really all that expensive and will cause me little financial pain. Total balls.
Women may buy 50 pairs of shoes and spend £100 on a manicure but I can guarantee that their credit cards don't sustain the kind of abuse that mine do.
There should be treatment available for people like me. Perhaps the Priory could start a residential on conquering addiction to pointless purchases.
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I'd be an early adopter if I had teh finances to support my techno-enthusiasm. I'm still weighing up the pros and cons of iRiver v iPod and Creative have come up the back straight and wiped the floor with both of them.
I think I'm going to get a Nikon D70s though.
Nikons have great lenses and are not to be sniffed at. I would reccommend a Leica. They have hardened aluninium iondized cases and are watreproofed to fifty metres.
They also look like something Dom McCullin would have carried about in 1966.
At only £1,299 they are an absolute bargain.
I can get a discount off a Nikon. Other than that, I'd got for the Canon - I already have a snappy powershot digicam that I love.
Who is your nikon dealer?
Somebody who works for Nikon Instruments (the scientific and microscopy side of things) gets a discount on all things Nikon and I'd go direct through him.
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