Damaged fuji camera.

Luis21

Hi, i recently dropped my Fuji camera, now when I take a picture it creates a circle around everything. I asked an assistant in a camera shop asnd he said he reckons the sensor is damaged. He also said that it will cost 166 Euro to fix. the camera wasnt much more than that. Am I getting ripped off ?

DaireQuinlan

Luis21 wrote: »

Hi, i recently dropped my Fuji camera, now when I take a picture it creates a circle around everything. I asked an assistant in a camera shop asnd he said he reckons the sensor is damaged. He also said that it will cost 166 Euro to fix. the camera wasnt much more than that. Am I getting ripped off ?

No, probably not. The lens/sensor package is probably just one big replaceable part. Add the cost of that to whatever labour cost for the repair and you'll probably end up shelling out almost what the camera cost in the first place. Modern cameras are just regarded for the most part as disposable consumer items. They're not designed with repair in mind.

Captain Flaps

Agreeing with DaireQuinlan, I work in a Fuji lab and we serve as a fuji agent for taking in broken cameras and sending them off for repair. Repairing these cameras is hugely expensive because they don't have that many parts, and once something as important as the sensor goes, they're pretty much just putting a new camera into the old body, which they aren't willing to do. I always warn people that repairs are expensive so not to get their hopes up. General rule of thumb is once there is actual damage to the hardware, it's probably more economical to consider purchasing a new camera. My store doesn't sell cameras and it takes minimal effort on my part to send stuff off for repair, so I don't have an agenda, I just like to tell people the truth: compact cameras aren't designed to be repairable items.

HxGH

Don't mean to sound like a snob or anything but just get a new camera?

They're not too bad nowadays?

Luis21

Thanks for the replies people. Much appreciated.