Digital Camera Repair

What do you do when your digital camera breaks? Do you toss it in a drawer and go shopping? Or do you look to get it fixed? Once upon a time, every town of a decent size had a place to get your TV fixed, your shoes repaired, your watches tweaked (remember the watchmaker?), and yeah … even a place that fixed those old clunky SLR film cameras. I’d reckon there are very few neighborhood digital camera repair shops.

Fuhgettaboutit …we’ve got to send out for that.

I can’t tell you the number of digital cameras that have gone south here at Rancho Indebto. I’ve lost track. Having a sense of timing, they always seem to break just before Christmas. Blame it on timing or something else. The digital cameras don’t get repaired around these parts, for better or for worse.

When the trigger button broke on my daughter’s current camera, my wife got it in her head that the camera needed to be replaced. The thought of getting the camera repaired never entered her mind … until I took a look at the button and quickly ascertained that it would be an easy fix (at least to my untrained eye).

I jumped onto the manufacturer’s website to see if there might be a camera repair depot within driving distance. After poking around a bit, I realized that the camera had to be shipped out and might actually be covered under warranty … if indeed it had been registered. So I asked about the possibility of finding the original receipt … and all I got back was a blank stare. You know the one I’m talking about … the Dad’s a Martian and he’s speaking in alien language again stares.

Save the receipt? Surely, you jest.

Unfortunately, it all comes down to this: find the receipt and the camera will get fixed free of charge. If the receipt is not found, it’s going to cost … and that cost, even for this trivial repair, might make a new purchase the more expedient, if not expensive choice.

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