kandidcamera
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I recently broke my old GE 10mp point and shoot while on vacation. When I returned from vacation I went to wally world (Walmart) and bought a replacement. First I'll say that I've never had an interest in photography beyond simply snapping pics on vacation and special occasions. So while I was shopping for my replacement camera I figured what the heck, I'll shell out a few extra bucks and get one of those nice super zoom bridge cameras. I ended up getting a Samsung WB100 on sale. At first I was amazed at the difference in image quality compared to my old point and shoot. I take this camera with me everywhere and take hundreds of pictures of everything that I think looks nice. My ghost town of an instagram account is now filled to the brim with photos and i am obsessed with photohraphing everything. Now that I've had this camera for a couple weeks despite the amazing pictures I have snapped with it, I'm starting to notice things about it that I don't like. I've gotten decent at setting the ISO setting for the lighting but other than that there's not much else to manually adjust. The issues I'm having is that 1. it sometimes has some lengthy lag in between shots. 2. sometimes just doesn't want to focus and 3. sometimes seems like the shutter is staying open for to long resulting in blurry photos. For the most part the pics are beautiful but I have run into these issues. My question is, since I still have two weeks to return this camera at wally world no questions asked should I? I paid $139. Would it be worth my time and effort to return the camera and buy a better bridge camera? If so what do you all recommend? If I do go for a different camera I would need something at or under $250. That pretty much leaves me out of the DSLR world with the exception of a used Nikon d40 or d50. Those two are the only DSLR cameras that I've seen in this range and there nearly a third of the megapixels compared to the Samsung WB100. Not that I know if that even matters. Long story short...is the Samsung WB100 a decent camera or can I do better in the same $130-$200 ish price range?