Digital Camera Broken? Water damage?

Matt`_5

This is a follow on from my original thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=91465

I have added some photos so if anybody knows how much this might cost i would be very grateful. Sometimes it works fine, other times it does.

Could you give me a rough price for how much you think this may cost to
repair?

Thanks,

Matt



I had a quote from a company saying I will need a new ccd unit to be fitted.
The cost of this is £65.00 plus £6.00 carriage plus vat

Mr_Skint_2

Didnt work then, bummer eh.... Household Insurance claim maybe?

Matt`_5

Mr_Skint wrote:

Didnt work then, bummer eh.... Household Insurance claim maybe?

Nope, not covered

Mr_Skint_2

Matt` wrote:

Nope, not covered

Er how old is the camera and original price?

Matt`_5

Mr_Skint wrote:

Er how old is the camera and original price?

Well its now 2 years old but i brought it for £200 odd pounds

Northtim

I have a Canon camera which has failed recently. The CCD wasn't the problem with mine unfortunately but it is a known issue with many cameras and some offer free repairs. The link below mentions this problem with Fuji cameras - maybe it will help you?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100403fuji_advisory.asp

If you scroll down it mentions F410, I know this is Fuji USA but if you do some searching on this you may find UK cameras affected.

Good Luck

I have binned my Canon and gone for a cheaper, hopefully reliable Casio!

pin

Sell your old camera on ebay? I got £65 for my old damaged digi cam a few months ago.

Matt`_5

Northtim wrote:

I have a Canon camera which has failed recently. The CCD wasn't the problem with mine unfortunately but it is a known issue with many cameras and some offer free repairs. The link below mentions this problem with Fuji cameras - maybe it will help you?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100403fuji_advisory.asp

If you scroll down it mentions F410, I know this is Fuji USA but if you do some searching on this you may find UK cameras affected.

Good Luck

I have binned my Canon and gone for a cheaper, hopefully reliable Casio!

As mine isn't in the serial number i dont think that they will do it for free but ill give them a ring and see. Cheers

pin wrote:

Sell your old camera on ebay? I got £65 for my old damaged digi cam a few months ago.

Yeah i was thinking of doing that Cheers

EvilMonkey

I would have thought replacing the ccd unit would be a pretty specialist job and not too cheap to get the bits either. So I'd say £65 seems like reasonable value. The question is can you get a better one for a little bit more? (even better if you can flog the old one on ebay!)

E.M.

Poppycat

I doubt very much if its repairable without incurring great cost. It might even be the cmos chip that has got damaged. It would be most likely cheare to get another camera, Botts had a 5mb camera last week at a knock down price.

Matt`_5

Poppycat wrote:

I doubt very much if its repairable without incurring great cost. It might even be the cmos chip that has got damaged. It would be most likely cheare to get another camera, Botts had a 5mb camera last week at a knock down price.

Do you what camera this is? Model number or anything? Thanks