hartz
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A couple of months ago my D3000 got rained on - fairly soaked through. It seems like it "wants to" work - the menus operates, it focuses, everything looks good until you try to take a photo. I can hear the mirror flip up, but no photo is written to the card and you then get an error to "press shutter release again", after which you hear the mirror flip back and the menus become available again.
The local repairs people were completely uninterested in even looking at it. Presumably such a "cheap camera" is more expensive to repair than to replace.
Fortunately the lens that were mounted still works perfectly.
I got a Nikon D5100 as replacement. Yay. A D7000 would have been better but I bough the D5100 brand new at 50% of retail (someone selling an unwanted gift). For the money a bargain and for my needs its just perfect.
But now I still have the D3000. Should I keep trying to get it repaired to have a backup camera, or should I sell it as "spares, not working". What is the chances that it can ever work again?
The local repairs people were completely uninterested in even looking at it. Presumably such a "cheap camera" is more expensive to repair than to replace.
Fortunately the lens that were mounted still works perfectly.
I got a Nikon D5100 as replacement. Yay. A D7000 would have been better but I bough the D5100 brand new at 50% of retail (someone selling an unwanted gift). For the money a bargain and for my needs its just perfect.
But now I still have the D3000. Should I keep trying to get it repaired to have a backup camera, or should I sell it as "spares, not working". What is the chances that it can ever work again?