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I was flicking through the tv channels the other day, trying to find something to watch, when I got a shopping station selling a digital camera. The camera was a Luminox! Now I've of Minox they're the people who used to make the spy cameras and Lumix is a name used by Panasonic, but Luminox?

The camera looked cheaply constructed it was obviously made by some unknown Chinese manufacturer. They were asking £106 to start with which dropped to £96, presumably there was an extra charge for postage? In my opinion this camera was worth no more than £50 and yet they got 60 mugs to buy one.

I'm sure readers of this column would not buy from one of these shopping channels. After all there are many cameras at this price from reputable manufacturers which will produce good photos.

Happy photo taking

G.P.B.

  Web site last updated Tuesday 30th June, 2009

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