SD900 lens error - just buy a new one??

[Curtis Gulick]

The lens on my SD900 is stuck out. I took it apart trying to find anything that was broken but man is that stuff crammed in there! Anyway, never got anything, but i can manually turn the lens and get it to go back in. When it turns on, lens comes out and then it displays a picture that's very blurry on LCD, then goes back to "lens error, restart camera".

I use this for scuba diving with canon underwater case as well as a carry around camera. I have had it repaired once already after falling off a bike in Tuscany while holding it (don't ask ha). That was $127 last time. SD1100 is $150 or so (cheap!), but then I have to buy a new underwater case too.

Recommendations on what to do here?

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[CarFreak8394]

If you've already dropped it once (I know, it happens), I would say you might be better off with the SD770/SD1100. Just my humble opinion, though.
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