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My Elph 310 hs broke...help?

Started Dec 16, 2011 | Discussions thread
OP jcline Regular Member • Posts: 151
Re: My Elph 310 hs broke...help?

Shoot. It's looking like I'm indeed missing a spring or something like that. I spent a good 45 minutes or so trying to get the blades to line up just right. I got them to match exactly what it would look like, but when the the "cap" was placed over them and the camera turned on, it just made a terrible whirring noise and did nothing.

So, back to square 1. Perhaps I'll go into a camera store and see what they might be able to do, perhaps I'll just keep it like this in a case at all times, perhaps it'll become the "around the house" camera, perhaps I'll see how much Canon wants to fleece me for the fix it.

Oh well, lesson learned. They sure make these things CHEAP these days! Though, that's not entirely true, the only mark on the thing from falling was the lens cap system breaking. There isn't a dent, scratch, or other mark to be found otherwise!

-JC

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