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Message: <blockquote data-quote="okulo" data-source="post: 506807" data-attributes="member: 40687">I am an insomniac and tried to reply to the suggestions made at about 2.30am on my iPad but my hand brushed the Cancel button and I lost everything even though I thought it had been auto saved.Anyway, regarding buying a spares or repair camera, I actually had the same thought as I was trying to get to sleep. I looked on eBay but all the cameras either fully working and not sensibly priced for my purposes but I will keep my eye out. And, if I buy one as spares or repair, I could sell it afterwards as spares or repair again, I suppose; the cost might then be minimal.I am in the UK, sorry, I should have mentioned that.As ever, the situation is more detailed than I wrote in the initial post. I have actually given my girlfriend a Nikon Coolpix S4 now. She's not really into photography but I am trying to encourage her not to depend on her iPhone to take photos.I am not particularly wedded to the 5700 other than in 2003 it was my first ever digital camera having had a variety of Pentax SLRs for the previous 20 years. I remember it was £799 which was over ten times what I paid for the one I bought my girlfriend a couple of years ago - they are now going for about £30. I just didn't want it to end up being left in its bag and never used. My girlfriend actually prefers the 5700 as it suits her eyesight better due to it having a viewfinder with diopter adjustment.An upgrade is not really on the cards unless she wants to buy something herself. However, I am very tempted, as I have mentioned elsewhere, to buy a P900 as a toy to keep in my camera bag. I know it has its limitations but as one review I read said, it's basically a telescope which takes photos and bearing that in mind, I think it will be worth having for when my subject is too far away.</blockquote>

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