Any Polkies run a camera repair shop?

gwh

Picked up a Nikon D40 at a garage sale that takes very very dark pictures and sometimes displays error messages when you try to take a picture. I dont have much in it and if I can get it fixed fairly cheap I'd keep it for a back up or whatever. Might have some gear to trade (nothing spectacullar) and or $.



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VR3

Id give this a shot -

In your menu under Custom Setting Menu, choose Menu Reset

Sherardp

Plenty of them out here in Japan if you wanted to ship it out for repairs.

obieone

VR3 wrote: »

Id give this a shot -

In your menu under Custom Setting Menu, choose Menu Reset

Thanks, I almost threw away a Lumix DMC-FZ7 because the optical zoom wouldn't work

mhardy6647

Sounds like what happened to my son's D40 after many thousands of exposures. There's a well-known failure mode. He had Nikon fix it; the cost (out of warranty) was somewhat less than the street value of a used D40. He, kindly, passed the repaired camera on to his sister :-) and bought himself a new-to-him Nikon D200.

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http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com/2011/11/6.html