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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
I accidently tried to charge my kodak easyshare m753 with the wrong
charger (a 6v) and it won't work-so i bought a new battery and battery charger(since i couldn't find mine) and charged the battery and installed it into the camera, but it still won't turn on-so, i guess the motherboard was fried, right? Any help would be appreciated-I don't have original receipt and bought it around Xmas, so without warranty what can i do? Thanks, Janice |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
Hello
On 25 Feb., 06:36, wrote: I accidently tried to charge my kodak easyshare m753 with the wrong charger (a 6v) and it won't work- oh, that's really bad. some devices are relatively immune against such "attacks". Others just get fried! so i bought a new battery and battery charger(since i couldn't find mine) and charged the battery and installed it into the camera, but it still won't turn on-so, i guess the motherboard was fried, right? Any help would be appreciated-I don't have original receipt and bought it around Xmas, so without warranty what can i do? I'm not sure if the warranty would cover such a case. normally it's wriiteen in the instructions not to use anything else than the original power-supply, otherwise the warranty will be void. If you are really lucky, they are able to repair the thing. But i would think that you will have to buy a new camera :-( Marco |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
See if you can get a copy of the receipt from your credit card company or
the place you bought the camera and just tell Kodak the camera failed and see what they do. It may not have been anything you did as Kodak cameras have relatively poor reliability among a class of cameras not known for ruggedness of design or construction. Unless they have changed their policy Kodak's minimum charge for out of warranty repairs exceeds the used value of any camera ever sold under the Kodak name since they stopped selling SLRs over 40 years ago. |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
fac wrote:
See if you can get a copy of the receipt from your credit card company or the place you bought the camera and just tell Kodak the camera failed and see what they do. It may not have been anything you did as Kodak cameras have relatively poor reliability among a class of cameras not known for ruggedness of design or construction. Unless they have changed their policy Kodak's minimum charge for out of warranty repairs exceeds the used value of any camera ever sold under the Kodak name since they stopped selling SLRs over 40 years ago. Interesting. PC World rated the major manufacturers on reliability, and stated that Kodak was at the bottom of the list, BUT, their own chart, (see http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=112915&page=12&zoomIdx=1) seems to contradict their previous statement, rating them ABOVE Nikon, Panasonic, and Olympus. This kind of rampant BIAS in the subjective results in articles is pretty much a reflection of what one sees in this newsgroup. |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
fac wrote:
See if you can get a copy of the receipt from your credit card company or the place you bought the camera and just tell Kodak the camera failed and see what they do. It may not have been anything you did as Kodak cameras have relatively poor reliability among a class of cameras not known for ruggedness of design or construction. Unless they have changed their policy Kodak's minimum charge for out of warranty repairs exceeds the used value of any camera ever sold under the Kodak name since they stopped selling SLRs over 40 years ago. Hello, Fac: Alas, perception isn't reality, where the "ruggedness" of Kodak's digicams is concerned. I own several such camera models and have seen and handled many more, in various stores; if they're genuinely any flimsier than their counterparts from other major manufacturers, I believe I would've recognized that fact, by now. Cordially, John Turco |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
Ron Hunter wrote:
fac wrote: See if you can get a copy of the receipt from your credit card company or the place you bought the camera and just tell Kodak the camera failed and see what they do. It may not have been anything you did as Kodak cameras have relatively poor reliability among a class of cameras not known for ruggedness of design or construction. Unless they have changed their policy Kodak's minimum charge for out of warranty repairs exceeds the used value of any camera ever sold under the Kodak name since they stopped selling SLRs over 40 years ago. Interesting. PC World rated the major manufacturers on reliability, and stated that Kodak was at the bottom of the list, BUT, their own chart, (see http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=112915&page=12&zoomIdx=1) seems to contradict their previous statement, rating them ABOVE Nikon, Panasonic, and Olympus. This kind of rampant BIAS in the subjective results in articles is pretty much a reflection of what one sees in this newsgroup. Hello, Ron: Par for the course, I fear! Cordially, John Turco |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:39:56 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:
: fac wrote: : See if you can get a copy of the receipt from your credit card company : or the place you bought the camera and just tell Kodak the camera failed : and see what they do. : It may not have been anything you did as Kodak cameras have relatively : poor reliability among a class of cameras not known for ruggedness of : design or construction. : Unless they have changed their policy Kodak's minimum charge for out of : warranty repairs exceeds the used value of any camera ever sold under : the Kodak name since they stopped selling SLRs over 40 years ago. : : Interesting. PC World rated the major manufacturers on reliability, and : stated that Kodak was at the bottom of the list, BUT, their own chart, : (see http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=112915&page=12&zoomIdx=1) seems to : contradict their previous statement, rating them ABOVE Nikon, Panasonic, : and Olympus. This kind of rampant BIAS in the subjective results in : articles is pretty much a reflection of what one sees in this newsgroup. Are you asking us to believe that PC World uses this newsgroup to supply the information it uses to develop product reliability ratings? That strikes me as something between an oversimplification and an absurdity. Bob |
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Kodak Easyshare shorted motherboard?
Robert Coe wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:39:56 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote: edited for brevity : Interesting. PC World rated the major manufacturers on reliability, and : stated that Kodak was at the bottom of the list, BUT, their own chart, : (see http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=112915&page=12&zoomIdx=1) seems to : contradict their previous statement, rating them ABOVE Nikon, Panasonic, : and Olympus. This kind of rampant BIAS in the subjective results in : articles is pretty much a reflection of what one sees in this newsgroup. Are you asking us to believe that PC World uses this newsgroup to supply the information it uses to develop product reliability ratings? That strikes me as something between an oversimplification and an absurdity. Bob Hello, Bob: I rather doubt that Ron Hunter was implying such a thing, when he used the word "reflection." He probably meant there's a general feeling of anti-Kodak sentiment, which permeates the mainstream photographic media, as well as Usenet, itself. (If so, then, I tend to agree with him.) Actually, Kodak happens to have one of its own employees (Ron Baird) monitor this newsgroup, occasionally; he hasn't posted here, in many months, alas. Cordially, John Turco |
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