- Feb 1, 2007
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So I got a brand new camera kit about a month ago, the fujufilm x-t10. I took it with me to San Diego last weekend and stupidly brought it to the beach against my better judgement. It ended up getting hit by a wave while I was swimming, my girlfriend grabbed it as fast as she could but it was already too late. I dried it out for 3 days in rice but it was still all messed up when I tried to use it, I imagine there is a coating of salt all over everything inside.
Anyways, I ended up taking it to a repair shop here that's an authorized shop for fuji, they came back and said the body is not economically viable to repair, but the lens looks like it might be ok. They don't have any spare bodies to test it with so they are not sure though, personally I don't have much hope for it, it's not a weather sealed lens so it's likely some water got inside somewhere.
I plan on re-buying the camera because it was great up until it's demise, I'm pretty tempted to just go for the X-T1 for the weather sealing but at this point I am not sure if I should rebuy the lens or not. It's the nicer 18-55mm F2.8-4 lens so it's around $600 by itself but you get around $300 off the price if you buy it as part of one of the kits. I'd hate to buy a new body only to find out the lens is trashed as well and have to spend even more to replace it so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Should I just send it back to fuji to test or something? I'm somewhat tempted to rent a body to test it with, that may be the way to go since I don't know anyone with an X series body.
Anyways, I ended up taking it to a repair shop here that's an authorized shop for fuji, they came back and said the body is not economically viable to repair, but the lens looks like it might be ok. They don't have any spare bodies to test it with so they are not sure though, personally I don't have much hope for it, it's not a weather sealed lens so it's likely some water got inside somewhere.
I plan on re-buying the camera because it was great up until it's demise, I'm pretty tempted to just go for the X-T1 for the weather sealing but at this point I am not sure if I should rebuy the lens or not. It's the nicer 18-55mm F2.8-4 lens so it's around $600 by itself but you get around $300 off the price if you buy it as part of one of the kits. I'd hate to buy a new body only to find out the lens is trashed as well and have to spend even more to replace it so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Should I just send it back to fuji to test or something? I'm somewhat tempted to rent a body to test it with, that may be the way to go since I don't know anyone with an X series body.