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MovingOut
  10/28/2014 12:50 EST

My simple Canon digital camera that I bought in the USA last June died. Canon gave me an estimate of $250 to fix the camera for which I paid $140. I don't think that is such a good deal.

I was told there is a Manta expat forum online but could not find a real one.

Any suggestions as to where to get a decent price on a simple, pocket-size, digital camera?

jaymo
  10/28/2014 18:56 EST

First the good news: Supermaxi carries digital cameras. I'm not sure which brands, but digital cameras are listed in their product lines under technology.

Now the bad news: the humidity and salt air wreaks havoc on the electronics in digital cameras. Five days on the coast knocked out my wife's Canon 5D.

And the neither good nor bad news: the humidity effects are usually reversible. A couple of days in the altitude of Cuenca returned the camera to health.

Your one year old digital may not be dead. put it in a plastic bag filled with rice. The rice should absorb the moisture.

jaymo

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cintapadamu
  10/28/2014 21:40 EST

The air humidity might ordinarily be no problem (I worked for Nikon).
If the camera has got, nevertheless, too much humidity, it is better to be laid in the sun or to work on something with the hairdrier. Higher and higher repair costs are called with it one buys a new camera. If they lift the camera please. If I, hopefully the next year in Manta live, I will have a look at them and repair, perhaps. Mostly it is only one little thing.

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