It's time to give up old thoughts

I always had thoughts and impression that digital cameras from non-photo companies like Samsung, Panasonic and the likes will never be as good as those coming from the experts in the field like Nikon, Cannon, or Olympus. Apparently I had been totally wrong. Recently I bought Olympus 800UZ because (1) it has a really great zoom (30x - can you believe that?) and (2) it comes from one of the photo experts. After shooting pictures and videos for 2 days, I didn't feel particularly satisfied with the photo and video quality at all. The pictures look dull and burned and videos look blurry. I thought I was me not knowing how to use the camera. So I went through every single page of the manual and adjusted any possible settings to see if the quality would improve. Nothing got better. I got to the point that I thought I should look for a new one and return this one while I still could. I was looking around and found Samsung WB600/HZ30W. It was totally skeptical with it because of the thoughts/impression I had. However, I saw many videos shot by this camera in youtube and they all looked very stunning. I also saw pictures people taken with this camera on the Internet and they look pretty impressive to me - bright, vivid, crisp and and super clear. So I went ahead buying it (still kept 800UZ) with the second thought that at worst I would just return it. Apparently I was totally wrong. This camera is not only easy to use, it most of the time gives out extremely high quality pictures and videos. I am totally impressed and sold by it. After a couple days of using it, I came to the conclusion that returning 800UZ is definitely the right thing.

So anyone who have the same thoughts I did, you might find that giving a try the products from these non-photo companies is a very good idea. I was thinking maybe I should also be giving some thoughts about Kia and Hyundai cars and the likes too! Or maybe it's a stretch...