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ZenGum · 11-03-2009, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Makes me look a little twisted.

Sounds like one of those multi-level self-portraits that express your personality as well as showing your appearance, then.

Send the camera back. Act Innocent. Insist there was no improper use. Require warranty repairs.

If it makes you feel better, there is a standard "one meter drop test" that everything is expected to pass - it should be able to survive a one meter drop onto hard surface (like concrete). If their camera couldn't take that, they owe you the repairs.
Mind you, I am not sure that applies to digital cameras. When in Thailand, my camera failed when I was holding it and slipped a bit - the camera never left my hand, never hit the ground, but got a good hard shake ... enough to destroy the lens mechanism. Damn. Mind you, the camera has a special 7.1x optical zoom squeezed into a slimline flat camera, so it is a bit exceptional.

DanaC · 11-03-2009, 06:20 AM

It was way less than one meter onto a carpeted floor...

I rather suspect much of the damage has come from my attempts to force the mechanism back into plave rather than the original drop! I panicked when it wouldn't go back in. What I should have done is put it down somewhere, go have a cup of tea, and come back to it calm, then removed the battery and messed around with the on/off switch a bit to try and get it to go back in. But hey, ya live and learn :P

I am going to send it to the casio repair centre with absolutely no mention of any improper use and see what comes back from them.

I actually dreamt I fixed it last night lol.

Cloud · 11-03-2009, 09:53 AM

send it back for repair. Don't mention your forcing the mechanism. Deny! Obfuscate! Demand!

DanaC · 11-03-2009, 11:39 AM

Update: Ohmigod I love PCWorld!

According to the casio website the only way to deal with broken camera is to send it to the casio repair centre. According to the teeny tiny printed words on the little folded up warranty sheet in the camera box the second option is to take it to the place of purchase: PCWorld in my case.

Took it down there. Told half the story (it went dark with lens stuck out, took out battery and put back in and it retracted, now won't come out again). Didn't mention any dropping or forcing. In fact when I was telling the guy how little use it had had, I told him I'd bought it slightly less than a month ago (true) but only actually used from last week (true) and that it had seemed fine (true) and I was at home taking a photo of my dog (slight fib) when it had stopped working, I also said, that it hadn;t been anywhere exciting and hadn't had anything exciting happen to it.

He looked at it, told me this was a very common thing to happen. Then checked stock and said they had no more left. There was the possibility of taking a black one instead (£20 more than the green, which I'd have been happy to pay) or getting a different camera. I thought about it and said I'd really liked the camera before it stopped workng and would very much like the same model and whilst i was totally in love with the green colour, I'd rather takle a black one than a different camera... unless this was a particular problem with this model, in which case maybe I had better get a different one....he said it was a common problem with all of these kinds of cameras not just the casio exilim. He said if I really wanted the green one I could maybe pick up from a different branch. Since the other branches were all miles away I was going to just get the black one, but then asked if there was any chance of the other branch sending a green one to this store. He made a couple of phone calls and arranged for a new exilim green to be sent out to him. Should be there within a week. He's going to phone me when he has it. No additional charge to me

Quibble-free replacement. I really wasn't sure I'd get that. I was talked into trialling the 'anything goes' service for my PC when I bougth it, but I didn't take the option on the camera (extra 1.99 per month) so I figured they'd just say they had to send it away and I'd end up with a bill.

I love PCWorld. Of course I won't completely relax until i have it in my hand *grins* just in case he was mistakenly looking at the part of my receipt that said 'anything goes club' and thought it referred to camera rather than laptop. But I don't think that was it.

*sighs* lesson learned and apparently at no actual cost!

capnhowdy · 11-03-2009, 12:12 PM

Yay! That worked out great!

And we got a damn good pic of you, deboot.

Pie · 11-03-2009, 01:25 PM

...but now we want more. And you'll have a new camera. <wink>

Queen of the Ryche · 11-03-2009, 01:57 PM

So Z and I stopped by the local bar to grab a beer after work yesterday - when we pull up there are like 50 Harley's in the parking lot - very odd for a Monday night in the 30s in October....Turns out it was the end of a memorial ride for a guy we've ridden with on several occasions - friend of a friend. Only 43 years old, amazing father of three, loving husband - He had left the same bar alst Saturday at 11:00 - left early to make sure he wasn't too drunk to ride - hit a patch of ice, lost it, went over a curb into a traffic sign. My buddy was with him - asid a helmet wouldn't have saved him, it was his body not his head, he was definitely not drunk, or speeding.

BUT OF COURSE the local papers just HAVE to write the story as "crazy biker with NO HELMET died in a crash. Police are investigating whether speed or alcohol were factors."

Never mind the part about Pat was a nice guy, a great friend, who will be missed by his family......

classicman · 11-03-2009, 02:02 PM

Sorry to hear that Queen.

The headlines gotta grab attention & sell papers - Nice guys and fathers don't do that.

capnhowdy · 11-04-2009, 07:38 AM

Sorry, Queen. Us bikers always get a bad rap.

Queen of the Ryche · 11-04-2009, 04:34 PM

Thanks guys - and you are both right. Never mind that we do some of the most amazing charity work, or that we're always there for each other. Nope. We just pillage and plunder, right?

DanaC · 11-04-2009, 04:41 PM

The only bikers I have actually met in my life have been middle-aged (or older) family men who've been riding their bikes for several decades. One of them was a grandfather to a young toddler. His youngest daughter was studying to become a doctor. *shrugs* Ya look a little different and you listen to 'scary' music. Nonsense, but then that's what newspapers lap up with a spoon.

Queen of the Ryche · 11-04-2009, 05:46 PM

During the week I work in a very white collar industry, and am the perfect "soccer mom." You would never know I went anywhere near a Harley, until those particualr days or nights.......

DanaC · 11-04-2009, 07:20 PM

I can believe it. The guy I mentioned whose daughter was studying to be a doctor, was himself a geography teacher :P

ZenGum · 11-04-2009, 07:56 PM

Quote:

... newspapers lap up with a spoon.

Dana, you shouldn't do that to a metaphor.

DanaC · 11-04-2009, 07:57 PM

lol. Thanks. That one crept in. Not sure how. I think maybe I have been reading too many of said newspapers.

11-03-2009, 09:53 AM	#4773
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	send it back for repair. Don't mention your forcing the mechanism. Deny! Obfuscate! Demand! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

11-03-2009, 12:12 PM	#4775
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Yay! That worked out great! And we got a damn good pic of you, deboot. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-03-2009, 01:25 PM	#4776
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	...but now we want more. And you'll have a new camera. <wink> __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

11-03-2009, 01:57 PM	#4777
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	So Z and I stopped by the local bar to grab a beer after work yesterday - when we pull up there are like 50 Harley's in the parking lot - very odd for a Monday night in the 30s in October....Turns out it was the end of a memorial ride for a guy we've ridden with on several occasions - friend of a friend. Only 43 years old, amazing father of three, loving husband - He had left the same bar alst Saturday at 11:00 - left early to make sure he wasn't too drunk to ride - hit a patch of ice, lost it, went over a curb into a traffic sign. My buddy was with him - asid a helmet wouldn't have saved him, it was his body not his head, he was definitely not drunk, or speeding. BUT OF COURSE the local papers just HAVE to write the story as "crazy biker with NO HELMET died in a crash. Police are investigating whether speed or alcohol were factors." Never mind the part about Pat was a nice guy, a great friend, who will be missed by his family...... __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

11-03-2009, 02:02 PM	#4778
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Sorry to hear that Queen. The headlines gotta grab attention & sell papers - Nice guys and fathers don't do that. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-04-2009, 07:38 AM	#4779
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Sorry, Queen. Us bikers always get a bad rap. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-04-2009, 04:34 PM	#4780
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	Thanks guys - and you are both right. Never mind that we do some of the most amazing charity work, or that we're always there for each other. Nope. We just pillage and plunder, right? __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

11-04-2009, 05:46 PM	#4782
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	During the week I work in a very white collar industry, and am the perfect "soccer mom." You would never know I went anywhere near a Harley, until those particualr days or nights....... __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

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