After my D7000 got submerged in a lake I am faced with a $460 repair bill. I just wanted see what others would do. A used D7000 on Ebay goes for at least $600-$800. My budget is limited for a new DSLR body.
D7000 takes a swim
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Posted 11 months ago #
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If you buy another body on eBay it will not come with a warranty whereas a Nikon repair will. I can't say for sure but they may give you a refurb or new one to replace it - I would check that first with the repair centre. After my recent experience I would make sure it was Nikon that repaired it and not a franchise or generic repair shop because they are most likely to have more flexibility to replace.
Sorry to hear of your problem but welcome to the forum anyway epthomas.
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Unlucky--sorry to read of your news.
Any idea how many times you've fired the shutter?
Has it ever been repaired before?
Did you baby it before this accident or was it a little beat up?Posted 11 months ago # -
Shawnino,
This camera has never been repaired and it "was" perfect condition. However, I do not know the shutter count. The quote I have is from non Nikon authorized repair shop.
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Kind of depends if the swim it took was a quick one, or it was under for a while. If it was quick (less than a min) and a board got fried, I would just get it fixed. If it went under for a few minutes or longer, it's toast. Once something takes a long dip - it's always going to have issues. If that is the case, I would spend the money for a new setup or a used one.
I would get a quote from Nikon to fix your camera.For everyone:
I thought Nikon pushed thorough NO parts for non-Nikon authorized repair shops? Did that change?Posted 11 months ago # -
TaoTeJared said:
For everyone:
I thought Nikon pushed thorough NO parts for non-Nikon authorized repair shops? Did that change?I was given an extension number for parts order by the Nikon UK phone system when I called about my lens repair so maybe they had to back off that one.
In a past life I was responsible for repair of company products world-wide and when I set up a network of approved repair centres and stopped selling parts to just anybody the smelly stuff really hit the fan for a while. I imagine there were all kinds of people screaming down the phone to their local Nikon distributors and maybe Nikon found that there are a lot more cameras being repaired than they knew about and it could impact on the business badly if they did stop supplying parts.
Or maybe they just didn't get round to it yet because they are too busy fire-fighting the supply of new products... ;-/
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I spoke to Nikon and they said the non Nikon authorized repair shop could easily get the OEM parts.
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That's good to hear.
So how bad of a drink did your camera take?
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if phones can be sprayed with a nano coating to prevent it from being destroyed when ducnked in water, then maybe a camera can too. at least to help salvage some parts from being destroyed.
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I would go for the ebay solution and tried to sell this what You have as parts. You may be surprised how much money You can get for parts only, i.e. case, viewfinder, lcd screen, buttons, battery door. I doubt that the whole electronics is broken, as that's not the case most of the times.
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TaoTeJared said:
That's good to hear.So how bad of a drink did your camera take?
After I flipped the canoe, the camera was in the water maybe 2-3 seconds. The local repair shop said the main circuit board and the flash control circuit board have to be replaced. Nikon and a Nikon authorized shop said that $461 was certainly in the ball park for repairs.
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epthomas said:
After I flipped the canoe, the camera was in the water maybe 2-3 seconds. The local repair shop said the main circuit board and the flash control circuit board have to be replaced. Nikon and a Nikon authorized shop said that $461 was certainly in the ball park for repairs.That doesn't sound bad at all. If the boards are fried that can be fixed - if water got into other parts, mold, fungus, and the like can build up over time.
If the repair is much more, I would do what adamz said - list it as parts on ebay and you might fetch $400 for it. You may get $25 as well. If it goes high, that plus what you would have spent on repairs, you would have a new camera.
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I would worry about the trickle effect on the repairs. Replace board X and Y and all works however board Z was weakened when the other two failed. It works fine for a couple months, then bam it dies and maybe takes out another board with it. If you can locate one that appears to be and is listed as high in care as yours was, it might be worth paying a couple hundred more now. As mentioned, listing yours as parts could fetch a decent % of the replacement costs.
Of course you do not know if the one you are buying went for a drink too. I like the sales with 7-14 day returns.
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A bad day for D7000, I`m also with D7000 but even if I had a waterproof body would be careful not expose in it on water or move under a umbrella.
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As I do not know exactly how long ago the camera was submerged, here is a wild trial. If, by chance, you immediately removed the battery from the camera, give this a try. With the battery still out, place the camera into a sealed plastic bag and place the bag w/ camera in the sun allowing it to get fairly warm. The bag should have condensation on the inside. Remove the camera, dry the bag and repeat. When the camera in the bag, no longer gives off any evidence of moisture, do it another two cycles, then place the fully charged battery back into the camera.
The odds are very small, but a cell phone which was dropped into a swimming pool and remained for about 30 seconds, was able to survive and be functional after this. It could be the "fried" boards are simply shorted with moisture, and the technique above will get this out. What do you have to lose?
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I know there's a big difference between 'weather proof' & 'water proof', but am I the only one who finds it surprising that a D7000 submerged for just a few seconds, should have been damaged so badly? Presumably it didn't feel the effect of external pressure bearing down on it, by sinking to the bottom? I'm just surprised that a well made camera like a D7000 would not be able to stand up to a very quick dunk.
I was going to suggest a similar course of action to msmoto, namely leave it in your airing cupboard (is that a British term?) on a towel for a few weeks and see what happens.
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Looking at mine, I reckon it's the lens joint, battery cover, flash latch and connection covers that let the water in Skinty. Proper protection against ingress is dealt with by doing tests on the item and giving them an International protection rating. "Weather proof" could easily be as low as IP51 whereas it would have to be IP67 to resist immersion of up to a metre. The words 'weather protected' are weasel words in reality.
Great suggestion about the gentle dry heat of the airing cupboard BTW.
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msmoto said:
As I do not know exactly how long ago the camera was submerged, here is a wild trial. If, by chance, you immediately removed the battery from the camera, give this a try. With the battery still out, place the camera into a sealed plastic bag and place the bag w/ camera in the sun allowing it to get fairly warm. The bag should have condensation on the inside. Remove the camera, dry the bag and repeat. When the camera in the bag, no longer gives off any evidence of moisture, do it another two cycles, then place the fully charged battery back into the camera.The odds are very small, but a cell phone which was dropped into a swimming pool and remained for about 30 seconds, was able to survive and be functional after this. It could be the "fried" boards are simply shorted with moisture, and the technique above will get this out. What do you have to lose?
If you want to avoid the condensation in the bag, add some char coal into the plastic bag.
JürgenPosted 11 months ago # -
@skintbrit - it's not a pro body so thinks like this can happen, though I'm also a little bit surprised as I know what I was doing with my d90 and it survived even in very heavy rain w/o any cover
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If a 7D can survive this:
http://www.digitalrev.com/article/canon-7d-hardcore-durability-test/MjA0MjMyMTE_A
a D7000 aught to be able to take a quick dunk.Posted 11 months ago # -
Juergen said:
If you want to avoid the condensation in the bag, add some char coal into the plastic bag.
JürgenActually, the condensation in the bag lets one know if any more moisture is coming out of the camera, or so I have been told. So the cycle continues until the moisture stops accumulating. But, it is good to place whatever is in the bag on a small pedestal so as to not have it sitting in the pool of moisture.
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SkintBrit said:
If a 7D can survive this:
http://www.digitalrev.com/article/canon-7d-hardcore-durability-test/MjA0MjMyMTE_A
a D7000 aught to be able to take a quick dunk.The battery was probably taken out before being submerged, and was left till it was fully dry before putting the battery back in and setting it on fire.
Posted 11 months ago # -
The refrigerator pulls out moisture also. Toss it in there for a few days.
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adamz said:
@skintbrit - it's not a pro body so thinks like this can happen, though I'm also a little bit surprised as I know what I was doing with my d90 and it survived even in very heavy rain w/o any coverD90 can survive in Rain,but getting a camera submerged in water is a different thing altogether .Not even a D4 can survive a swim without a casing .
@OP: Keeping the Camera wrapped in container filled with rice for a few days might be of some help .
Posted 11 months ago # -
might have a slight chance of it ruviving if the battery was taken out before the dip. anyone wanna try?
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