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Camera Help Pretty Please!

SYates

Camino Fossil AD 1999, now living in Santiago de C
Time of past OR future Camino
First: Camino Francés 1999
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Last: Santiago - Muxia 2019

Now: http://egeria.house/
Unfortunately my beloved Canon G15 started playing up badly today ;-( I spent so far one hour on Google to find a Canon shop for repair here in Santiago - no luck so far. Anybody any ideas? Thanks!!!

SY
 
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Unfortunately my beloved Canon G15 started playing up badly today ;-( I spent so far one hour on Google to find a Canon shop for repair here in Santiago - no luck so far. Anybody any ideas? Thanks!!!

SY
I wish you luck with your camera. Last year I was trying to fix something in my DSLR Canon in Toledo and they told me to go to Madrid. I called Madrid office and they said the repair would take 3 weeks. I couldn't believe that :eek:
 
Unfortunately my beloved Canon G15 started playing up badly today ;-( I spent so far one hour on Google to find a Canon shop for repair here in Santiago - no luck so far. Anybody any ideas? Thanks!!!

SY
I feel your pain. Unfortunately, even if you find a shop that can do the repair, unless it's something really simple the time and expense of repairing may make it more expedient to simply replace the camera -- even if it's something simpler and less expensive. The G15 is too nice a camera to simply write off unless the cost repair is not economically a good option, so perhaps you might ship it home and deal with it later. I'm a believer in redundency, and typically travel with a second camera as a back-up. But for most of us, it's not practical to carry a back-up camera on the Camino, unless the back-up happens to be a smart phone that you're carrying anyway. Good luck in whatever the outcome.
 
Thankfully a vigorous drying out session overnight solved the problem by this morning. Camera is focussing and changing settings again as usual ;-) Thanks for all your tips, I have bookmarked them if further problems (hopefully not!) arise. And yes, Smartphone as camera back-up is a smart idea for photography afficicionadas like me ;-) Buen Camino, SY

PS Drying out tips (Galician weather is damp and the humidity creeps everywhere): Turn Camera on and extend lens to maximum, then remove battery (that way lens stays extended) and memory card and leave respective doors open. Protect from dust whilst it is open!!! Good luck and pray to St. Veronica ;-)

Buen Camino, SY
 
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