Here’s an interesting service consisting of a company that will fix your camera; they fix any camera anywhere in the world. The claim to have the fastest possible camera repair at the best possible price. I’ve had a quick skeet of their website and they indeed seem to support a huge variety of cameras. The thing that I find fascinating is that they can deal with your problem if you’re based in the US; but they can also deal with your problem if you’re based in Germany, France or even Estonia. How’s that for worldwide coverage?

It’s fascinating how technology today has managed to make the world a smaller place. Offering a world-wide service is no longer impossible, global brands like McDonalds are pretty common place and people are quite happy to move from one country to the other for work, pleasure or even a change of lifestyle. Interesting times huh?

Well, it’s my birthday next week and Camille is getting me a new compact camera to replace my old Minolta (which is now 5 years old). To tell you the truth, 3.2 megapixels is still great for online photos, but it’s slow, doesn’t give any control over exposure time and the battery really doesn’t last long. So, I’ve been looking around for what to get and here are my choices:

• Samsung NV100HD – Specs look impressive, boasting a 14.7 megapixel sensor a a wide array of features. Some of the reviews suggest that the quality of the photos doesn’t do the camera justice, so not sure about this one.
• Sony Cybershot DSCW120 – I really really like this camera. It has a whole bunch of features I love, but I’m not too fond of Memorysticks to store images on. I’m a bit of an SD man I guess.

I’m a bit torn between the two, but I think the Cybershot is the one that might win in the end.

There’s a new model out too that seems just perfect for me, but it’s a touch more than I wanted to spend. It’s the Sony Cybershot T700 and has some amazing features. It’s ultra-slim, does everything all the other cameras seem to do, has a massive touch screen on the back and even have 4Gb of internal memory. Check out the review here.

I like the fact that it’s super-slim and super-fast and I love all the gadgetry like face recognition and even smile recognition (yup, it won’t take a photo until you smile). The battery life looks amazing and the touch screen on the back just simply superb. As I said though, I was trying to keep it under £200, so this might be a touch to pricey. I might just go for it’s smaller brother.

The question is .. which one would YOU go for?