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camera broken, cost estimate to fix

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Snuffaluffaguss

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so, I bought an A40 used it for a good year and a half, then this afteroon it droped, hit the ground and the flash no longer works, everything else works., just the flash is broken, any ideas on how much it would cost to fix? thnks
 

IMHO, it is not worth it to fix a camera, because the last time I checked (about 10 year ago) labor cost was $65~$100 per hour depending on the camera.
 
Sell it on eBay.

Subtract what you make from 319$

Enjoy your new A80.

😉
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
Hell, I'd open it up before giving up that easily! It may just be the filament in the bulb.
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Flash tubes don't have filaments. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
Hell, I'd open it up before giving up that easily! It may just be the filament in the bulb.
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Flash tubes generally are xenon filled quartz tube.

It is unclear of what is broken, and it would be easy to refasten the wire if there is only a lose/broken lead, or replace a broken/capacitor/inductor/diode/transistor. However it would be hard to find the replacement quartz tube/flash lens housing, because it is not built to be replace.

You can try disconnecting the wire to the on camera flash & with some resistor modification/replacement you should be able to get the digital camera to work with an offcamera/slave flash unit.

 
I didn't have any luck finding replacements online, so you're probably right. If you can't find an obvious problem, like a broken run in a PCB or loose solder joint, then screw it, but's it's worth opening it up to find out.
 
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