Some point & shoot digital cameras /really/ don’t like to be dropped
I dropped the Olympus when we were at Legoland yesterday, and, aside from the case being a little sprung it seemed to be okay. But, alas, it was not. It’s been slowly deteriorating ever since then; first it started to write images even slower than before , and then it went to irregularly locking up, and finally it has gone to only letting me take one picture, and then forcing a power cycle before it would take another.
It was free, so it’s not a total waste. But it’s still annoying. Particularly when I take a framing picture of a passing train only to realize that I’ll have to powercycle before I take the real picture thereafter.