yep, both of my cameras do not work anymore. God knows what my little sister did to the camera I gave her, it refuses to turn on. My roommate in my freshman year of college was drunk and unconciously pissed all over a bin of electronic shit I had. Unfortunitely this is where I had my camera, 900$ worth of damage. Thanks brandon! This happened a few weeks ago and I'm not getting the money back for it as of yet.

So yes, thats right - no more pictures until I can afford a new one.

Update Feb 2, 2007:
I've disassembled the coolpix, and it's focus servo wont stop trying to pull the lens inwards towards the CCD and is grinding gears uncontrollably. None of the buttons work. It's trashed. :.(
Christmas rolled around and my father surprised me with a Nikon S10.... I'm excited I have a camera that turns on now, but extremely disappointed that this is a step in the wrong direction. Although there are 2million more pixels than any camera I have ever owned, the CCD is much more noisy at the same ISO levels as the coolpix 4500, - so noisy, that resizing down to 4M doesn't make the noise unnoticeable. The worst part, is it's INCAPABLE of manual focus and is basically a consumer level camera, so no ISO, shutter, or any other manual features other than focus 'zones'....... It was a very generous gift from my father, but to be honest, a let down in my heart, macro is extremely limited as well.

I am bitcore, welcome to my gallery.

Not sure what else to say here, I guess thanks for stopping by, and more thanks if you make a comment on one of my submissions.

I am bitcore, welcome to my gallery.
you oughta check out my little sister's deviations: and my sweetie's account:

Update, Dec 30: Ultra-high res experimentation
I have started some experiments with ultra-high resolution macro photography using a standard 4 MP CCD. What I'm doing is taking multiple pictures of a subject without letting the camera move at all to gather lots of visual data. Then, I have written some software that takes these photos and stitches all of the pixels together to produce an extremely high resolution image. This is so much better than simple supersampling\resizing interpolation since there is more actual data avalable, and no 'guesswork' in the processing.
A couple tests worked very well and produced some amazing results, even though the images I used weren't geometricaly identical. Another advantage is if you resize downwards, you average out the noise that the camera captured too.

4Mp camera using data from 4 yields a 12Mp image that is almost as good as a native CCD.

Current Drawbacks: Obviously the subject & lighting needs to be completely static and the images can't varry from shot to shot. You also need to take the photos in multiples of squares. IE: X^2, x being the scaling factor of how big you want it.

Currently, I have final exams to tend to but I'll post some cool crap soon.