How much for a digital camera?

PriceWatch recently received two e-mails about the price of Olympus Camedia digital still cameras.

What you've found . . .

Paal Janson bought a C4000, complete with EU warranty, in Aberdeen for 535. When he came home he saw that it was 5 at Dublin Camera Exchange and at Camera Centre.

Another reader, Tim Ring, told PriceWatch he recently bought an Olympus Camedia C5050 in Boston for 735 and also found it on the Internet for less than , at www. fotoconnection.com. But two central-Dublin camera shops quoted 1,195.

So we checked out prices for the Olympus Camedia C5050.

What we've found . . .

Here

Dublin: Camera Centre, Blanchardstown shopping centre, €1,159; City Cameras, Dawson Street, €1,159

Pixels, Liffey Street,

€1,199

Cork: O'Leary's Camera World, Patrick Street, €1,199

Limerick: Newman Cameras, Parkway shopping centre, €1,199

Galway: Galway Camera

Shop, William Street,

€1,199

Belfast: Jessops, High Street, €799

There

New York: B&H, Ninth Avenue, €747

London: Croydon Cameras, €799

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Cameras, Lothian Road,

€800

Copenhagen: Kontant Photo København, €1,200

Amsterdam: Fotobooms, Woutstraat, €854

Berlin: Foto-Klinke, Friedrichstrasse, €799

Cameras bought outside the European Union are liable to customs duty and tax of up to 4.2 per cent

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