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My old digital camera is starting to crap out so I cashed in some Aeroplan miles for a Future Shop gift card (since trying to book ANYTHING on Aeroplan is pointless) and picked up a Canon PowerShot SD300. Sweet looking camera, but WHAT'S WITH ALL THE CRAP THAT COMES WITH IT?

When I opened the box I figured they must have mistakenly packed information for building my own nuclear power plant.

- camera (obviously required)
- battery + charger (required)
- USB cable (required)

- "Digital camera solution" disk with some programs I'd never use
- "Camera Suite 1.3" disk - again with progams I'd never use
- Guide do demarrage des logiciels (102 pages)
- Accessories fournis avec l'appareil photo (4 pages)
- Supplied with camera (4 pages)
- Software Starter Guide (102 pages! "Starter"?)
- Camera user guide (4 huge fold out pages)
- Guide de demarrage rapide (4 monster fold out pages)
- some advertising for their digital printers
- a six page document telling me that, ya, sure, you don't have to install their software, but you really, really should
- the warranty card
- the full user guide (177 pages x 2 thanks to his French brother)
- the "Canon Direct Print User Guide" (100 pages)
- a cable to connect the camera to the TV
- a strap

There's more reading here than I did in first year university. When's the exam?

It took me all of 3 minutes to figure out the camera on my own, and I'm fairly certain that other required info is available on the 'net. What a waste. I think I'm going to plant a tree tomorrow and name it Canon.

That's a lot of crap...

And since you are a Mac user, you don't need any of the software... just plug it in and iPhoto will do the rest.

chris Wrote:And since you are a Mac user, you don't need any of the software... just plug it in and iPhoto will do the rest.

Do you work for Apple? :lol:

chris Wrote:And since you are a Mac user, you don't need any of the software... just plug it in and iPhoto will do the rest.

Sweet. I was hoping that was the case. Besides, I needed a couple of new coasters.

LizardKing51 Wrote:

chris Wrote:And since you are a Mac user, you don't need any of the software... just plug it in and iPhoto will do the rest.

Do you work for Apple? :lol:

I wish! :thumb:

I concur. Digital is crap. Manual SLR all the way baby.