Has you Canon or Nikon camera ever broken?

[TamiyaGuy]

I'll admit, my Nikon D40 broke on me, and only after about 8 months. One day, it just would not autofocus; it would go down to the minimum focusing distance, then give up. Jessops repaired it, but it came back with really bad metering; photos were 2-3 stops underexposed (plus the viewfinder was FILTHY), so then I got a brand new one . It was definitely a lemon, though. The new one is and, hopefully, will continue to work like a beauty!

In other news, the Nikon F301 I inherited a year and a bit back was sitting on a shelf, and had been for 8-odd years, In that time, the batteries had leaked. Half an hour of chiselling the acid off the battery terminals, and I'm still taking photos with it now.

 

[mimstrel]

I have a p&s Canon elph that I've had for 8 years (my first digi). It's been literally all over the world, dropped in caves, submitted to the humidity of the amazon, all kinds of stuff. Its got a little bit of a noise in the gears since the amazon, and turns on a little slow after being dropped a few times onto hard rocks... but I am amazed with how well it works - particularly in low light, better than my Panasonic!

I'm using a Nikkon film SLR - a Nikkormat... its fully manual so ought to be hard to break... if it ever does I'll mention it on here I'm sure. Its been sitting around various cupboards for the past 25 years (and nobody could work it right previous to that), so it hasn't been subject to any real use yet.

 

[JerryPH]

My dad has an F2a that has been put through hell and back. It was used hard and long (30+ years?), that the black cloth material that lines the camera to keep the light out has been replaced 12 times, it has been professionally cleaned/maintained perhaps 50 times, and then add the cleanings and what not my father did prior to each shoot.

Those things are TANKS and will not break of their own, it usually takes something very drastic (a 5-10 foot drop on to cement or asphalt, a nice long dip into the Atlantic ocean?) to do it serious damage. Even then the cost to repair it is still less than if I drop my D200 off the table to a hard surface.

Thats just the price we pay for the convenience of technology and the digital world. I can live with that.

 

[Montana]

I shoot with with a Rebel XTi and 40D and have yet to have a camera break.

Derrick

 

[PhotoSlip]

Is there a reason why I can't vote...?

Canon 20D, crashed once, but resetting it fixed that. I wouldn't count that as broken?
Canon 24-70 L, soft out of the box...I would consider that broken. Canon calibrated it in 2 days and even offered delivery so I give them props for doing the best they can to make up for it.

 

[youbetcha1018]

My nephew broke the lens of my Canon camera. I tried to have it fixed but no luck. They said that I have to buy new lens, for it. But buying new lens is like buying a whole new canon camera! And so, I kept it in my closet as a remebrance and bought new one.

 

[manaheim]

I think you are unable to vote if you are a noob.

 

[Hawaii Five-O]

I bought a Canon canonet QL17 GIII that had a stuck shutter and a small pit on the glass from some fungus. The wasn't really broke, just needed a little tender care