Nikon, Canon, Sony and others - they all produce the digital cameras of our third millennium.
With shorter product life cycles than before for film cameras, manufacturers are outdoing themselves with increasingly finer-resolution sensors, faster electronic circuits or daring lens designs that seem to play with the laws of physics.
An eldorado for photographers
where the currency is of course gold, whose exchange rate is always high.
So it's understandable that owners of top cameras want to continue taking photos with them even if they become defective.
This is not a problem within a certain period of time
after purchasing a device that is up-to-date. Well packaged, it is sent to the manufacturer's customer service, who - upon request - can solve even the most difficult repair cases with original spare parts, executed by factorytrained servicepeople.
As long as a manufacturer offers service for its camera, it does not have to be given up in the event of a repair.
If you're lucky, the damage is still covered by the manufacturer's statutory warranty and you don't have to pay for the repair. So I was happy about a brand new Canon L replacement lens for my DSLR because my copy was blurry.
Repairs for defective cameras or lenses that are still on the market are no problem, even if there is no longer a warranty. Provided you pay the price for it.
But after ten years
the repair service from the manufacturer usually ends.
From then on, your former top devices will be a thing of the past and only independent workshops will remain that may still be able to carry out repairs. Provided that their spare parts warehouse is full and they have the technical facilities and know-how to be able to repair high-performance devices.
Which of course costs money and may not be a wise financial decision given the new cameras and lenses that have now been released that are even more powerful.
A temporary investment
Anyone who always wants to work with relatively up-to-date photographic equipment will accept this for better or worse and see their photographic equipment as a temporary investment.
But for photographers who want to use their devices for longer, or for collectors, this is bad news. Who will take care of your favorites in the event of a problem if they have been forgotten by the market?
So all that's left is do it yourself
But who can repair as a DIYer highly integrated electronics? A screwdriver alone won't be enough, not even the soldering station in the hobby cupboard will be able to help.
And so it's understandable that you can only find sparse information on the web about how you can do something yourself.
DIY in fact ends
with cameras and photographic devices from the 1990s onwards.
Who knows DIYers who can repair a Nikon F5 or F6 or a Canon EOS-1 for film, which all can already be considered a camera computer?
So we can see that DIY for photographic devices ends with the third millennium of our era.
A virtual afterlife in the computer?
Perhaps the top cameras of the present and future will live on virtually as emulations in the computer. You then no longer repair at the table, but on the screen and play with the devices in a virtual workshop.
Who knows, in any case there are still enough photo devices from the past millennium left for repair attempts.
Assuming there will still be solder and crazy people who work with it
With shorter product life cycles than before for film cameras, manufacturers are outdoing themselves with increasingly finer-resolution sensors, faster electronic circuits or daring lens designs that seem to play with the laws of physics.
An eldorado for photographers
where the currency is of course gold, whose exchange rate is always high.
So it's understandable that owners of top cameras want to continue taking photos with them even if they become defective.
This is not a problem within a certain period of time
after purchasing a device that is up-to-date. Well packaged, it is sent to the manufacturer's customer service, who - upon request - can solve even the most difficult repair cases with original spare parts, executed by factorytrained servicepeople.
As long as a manufacturer offers service for its camera, it does not have to be given up in the event of a repair.
If you're lucky, the damage is still covered by the manufacturer's statutory warranty and you don't have to pay for the repair. So I was happy about a brand new Canon L replacement lens for my DSLR because my copy was blurry.
Repairs for defective cameras or lenses that are still on the market are no problem, even if there is no longer a warranty. Provided you pay the price for it.
But after ten years
the repair service from the manufacturer usually ends.
From then on, your former top devices will be a thing of the past and only independent workshops will remain that may still be able to carry out repairs. Provided that their spare parts warehouse is full and they have the technical facilities and know-how to be able to repair high-performance devices.
Which of course costs money and may not be a wise financial decision given the new cameras and lenses that have now been released that are even more powerful.
A temporary investment
Anyone who always wants to work with relatively up-to-date photographic equipment will accept this for better or worse and see their photographic equipment as a temporary investment.
But for photographers who want to use their devices for longer, or for collectors, this is bad news. Who will take care of your favorites in the event of a problem if they have been forgotten by the market?
So all that's left is do it yourself
But who can repair as a DIYer highly integrated electronics? A screwdriver alone won't be enough, not even the soldering station in the hobby cupboard will be able to help.
And so it's understandable that you can only find sparse information on the web about how you can do something yourself.
DIY in fact ends
with cameras and photographic devices from the 1990s onwards.
Who knows DIYers who can repair a Nikon F5 or F6 or a Canon EOS-1 for film, which all can already be considered a camera computer?
So we can see that DIY for photographic devices ends with the third millennium of our era.
A virtual afterlife in the computer?
Perhaps the top cameras of the present and future will live on virtually as emulations in the computer. You then no longer repair at the table, but on the screen and play with the devices in a virtual workshop.
Who knows, in any case there are still enough photo devices from the past millennium left for repair attempts.
Assuming there will still be solder and crazy people who work with it
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