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13 March 2010 [Saturday] @ March 13, 2010 edit

Has you Canon or Nikon camera ever broken?

I'm just curious how many people who own either one of these cameras has ever had one break and need repair.

This does not include damage that you caused, such as dropping it in the river as I did with my D100. :) (Though, actually, it didn't break when I did this... surprising) :thumbup: :D

EDIT: NOTE! I made this multiple choice in case you have had Canons AND Nikons. No cheating, please! :)

What the! Make sure you don't get the back end of this forum to do your tax return!
The current results are 1,2,1,3 which apparently represents.
16.67%
33.33%
16.67%
50%
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= 116.67% That's some wicked maths.

:lol: Wow.

Also looks like what we really need is a thread on "post your trainwreck camera destruction stories". hehe...

Actually, the local shop that I use to service my camera has a sort of camera graveyard in the front. It's a whole bunch of destroyed equipment with little plaques (did I spell that right?) detailing what happened to each. I spent a good 30 mins looking them over. Too funny.

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

Derrick

well as usuall I answered witout reading all the way through the question:blushing: lol my tripod was knocked over by one of my kids once and cracked a piece of plastic on my old 30d
so I checked yes on the canon.

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.

Wow... so far it looks like 1/4 of the people here taking the poll have had one or the other bust on them. :o

A 40D of mine stopped taking pictures. Everything seemed fine, but the shutter would only actuate once out of every 15 times or so that I would hit the button. Sent it to Canon and it came back working like new.

hmmm.... 2 broken Nikons to 1 broken Canon (so far)

I think people are lying. :lol:

If it is under $100 to fix it, it would be worth it... you can pick up SB-600s for $175 brand new. :)

Yeah, I already ordered my replacement, $189 new plus shipping from the US, where do you order from?

I am speaking of non-percussive damage. :)

So, like, it just stopped working one day. Not "Jeez, I dropped it off the brooklyn bridge onto the sidewalk and for some reason it stopped functioning!" :)

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

Oh the trend is shifting a bit now... interesting.

Never had one break but, my Coolpix995 died in a terrible drowning accident. It seem Bifurcator is the only one that has had both die on him.

Not camera bodies, but I broke my SB-600 flash by dropping it on a ceramic tiled floor from about 4 feet. It now fires continuously when powered on.. I suspect there is a short on the hotshoe, but I don't see any physical damage there (or inside -- I took it apart). Next step is to see if Nikon will fix it, I guess.

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 :D. 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.

Define "broken".

I have 2 Canons with broken LCDs. The LCD on one (A540) is actually cracked (this camera took A LOT of abuse, it's actually in pretty good condition considering what I've put it through), the other (350D) just stopped working one day. Other than the LCD, both cameras work fine.

If there are enough voters then I would expect only 5% to say that they had a camera from either nikon or canon break on them. However in my experiece these polls tend to attract the people who have had somthing break, so I expect the results will be somewhat skewed.

The other problem is of course the cameras age. If the camera in question is thirty years old and the shutter mech fails then this could be reasonably expected. This the results would be further skewed.

So far I must say that I've never had a camera break on me - a lens yes but not a camera

I've bought one that was broken does that count?

Also, It is broken to the point of "totaled", repair is....pointless, Does it still count?

So far the results are wicked even, which is interesting, because I could swear I saw more people complaining about broken Canons than Nikons. It's starting to look like my theory that maybe Canons break more is bogus. How dissapointing. :)

My bodies have been fine, but I had a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 that had a bad diaphragm. B&H exchanged it, no questions asked.

Wow... so far it looks like 1/4 of the people here taking the poll have had one or the other bust on them. :o

I think that the people that have had the Rebel XT go on them should kinda be excluded from the busted list.

For some reason, a lot of them just died in new or near new condition and are fixable under warranty (*way* more than normal, I know of at least a dozen people now that this happened to in the Montreal area alone). This is just not usual for Canon at all.

I voted no for Canons, even though my P&S is pretty run-down these days. But, it's also 7 years old now. It had been dropped several times and the damage it has now (other than cosmetic) is unrelated to the droppage.

My Rebel has never had a problem except the one time I dropped it causing the little battery clip to break, which is a non-issue since the compartment door still latches fine.

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.

When I first got my brand new Canon Rebel XT, it stopped working about 2 weeks after I got it (while I was in the Arctic, unfortunately, so I had to beg other people to let me use their cameras. And it wasn't a battery issue, in case you were wondering). When I got back home, the store that sold it to me replaced it, with no questions asked. I've had no problems since then.

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

2 Nikons and I am careful but also demanding of my cameras. I still own both and both work as well as they did the day I purchased them.

I think that unless you drop a dSLR camera into the ocean or into a pile of sand and kick it around a while, irrespective of brand, they are all very reliable... and more so the further up you go in the model line.

Nope, so far never had Canon break on me. I have had 3 cameras in 15 years just sold one ( still working) and still have and use the other 2. :thumbup:

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. :)

I almost dropped my Canon Elan IIe while changing a roll of film many years ago and when I caught it I stuck my thumb through the shutter curtains. Had to send it back to Canon to be repaired. That camera is long gone now but it was and always will be my favorite.

Why? If canon made a crappy camera in the XT series or Nikon in the lower DXX series then let the tale be told! That's exactly what the poll should reflect IMO.

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.

Yup! Those are broken! :D

No problems with my Canon DSLRs but a few film SLRs have issue, i have one Nikon but never used it

The strap on my bad went loose today causing the bag to free fall about 2 feet with both my 40D and my G9 in it as well as a few lenes. Everything is working fine, thought it was funny this post is here since that happend today... Also, I dinged my 350D around a bit and never had a problem. I think both Nikon and Canon make solid bodies, you get what you pay for.

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