Digital Cameras

[Big Wheel]

About a year ago my dad got me the Sony DSC P-92 as a gift. It was one of the first 5 megapixel cameras available in the States. Sony should never have rolled this one out, IMO. The image quality is not as sharp as it should be despite the high MP count, the thing uses clunky AA batteries and an external charger, and inexplicably, Sony included 3 of its 4 special "photo effects" in the features: sepia, solarize, and reverse effect. The one they casually neglected to include, a feautre that appears in all the other Sony models in this series (P-52, P-72, etc.) ? BLACK AND FREAKIN' WHITE.

But those things don't really bug me so much. The main problem I have with the camera is that the power system sucks. I don't know if there's a loose connection or something, but the thing shuts itself off at very strange (and often inopportune) times, even with fully charged batteries. This seems to be a somewhat well-documented problem. Tonight I pulled it out after not using it in months, charged up the batteries, and was able to get six pictures taken before it went on the fritz. Now I can't even get it to turn on to transfer the pictures to my PC.

I'm pretty sure the warranty has run out on this thing. Should I try complaining to Sony anyway, or just suck it up and buy a new camera?