An independent warranty provider known as SquareTrade has taken a survey of more than 60,000 new digital cameras (under $300) to see how they malfunction 2 years after purchase.

As you can see, Panasonic has the fewest reported failures, while Casio had the most. By the way, I recently broke my Casio camera. Here is some other results of the study:

10.7 percent of digital cameras fail within two years, and 15.6 percent are projected to fail within three years; accidents account for slightly less than 40 percent of camera failures

This data doesn’t look so good for point-and-shoots under $300.

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