From: Steve Sharpe > At 6:33 AM -0400 8/7/07, Bob Shell wrote: >> On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Steve Sharpe wrote: >> >>> I have a friend who owns another store that is virtually all film >>> cameras (Classic Camera in Biddeford Maine). His sales are steady as >>> well, though he makes most of his money repairing film cameras. He >>> has as much repair business as he can handle. People want to hang >>> onto their film cameras. >> I didn't say it in my original post, but my friend's shop also offers >> camera repair and does quite a bit of it. >> >> The Camera Fix group on Yahoo stays busy, and posts about repairing >> digital cameras are rare. > My friend has commented on that as well, in that most digital cameras > (and he was referring to point and shoots) are not designed to be > repairable if something goes wrong. So, the cost of actually repairing > one - if it can be done - is far more expensive than going over to > Wal-mart and just buying a new one.
Have to laugh about that one. I've got a Canon Point 'n Shoot digital; A60, IIRC. The Army gave it to me for documenting safety issues when I was in Iraq, but it died about halfway through the tour. Brigade S-4 instructed me to trash it, because it was not economically repairable, so I dumped it in a duffel bag and forgot about it. But near the end of 2005, I saw it was one of those listed as affected by a Sony imaging chip recall, so I said "What the heck", dug it out and dropped it by my local camera shop (Canon dealer). Their repair guy sent it in to Canon who repaired it under warranty. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
