I bought a brand spanking new F30 one Tuesday and by the Sunday I had dropped it off a bridge about 24 feet in height. I was in the process of putting my hand through the strap, but events happened while doing so and well...my hand never made it. Anyhow, it fell onto hard concrete. The battery went in one direction, the xD card the other. I tried turning the camera on once I put the battery and card back in and of course it didn't work. However, when I got the camera home, I found I could turn the camera on and access the cards pictures by pressing the playback button. So I thought nothing to lose I opened up the camera back by removing the tiny screws and found that a laminated/flat cable had come away. I reconnected it and despite the physical damage (which I managed to straighten out a bit, the camera has worked ever since. Had the lens been extended, it may have been a different matter, but for a camera to drop off a high bridge, hit the concrete below and still work at the end of the day, well thats a well made camera. (Mind you, I did sell it to a friend and buy a new one.
Well I am impressed with that. I would have thought that it would not work after that fall. Did you wish the person who bought it from you good luck with the humpty dumpty camera????
I'm amazed as well. My friend who bought it off me is well chuffed. He hadn't had a digital camera before and he got a 6MP 3200 ISO camera for 50 pounds. It cost 279 pounds originally. Unrelated, I am also going to design a filter holder for the camera so I can use my SLR photographic filters on the F30, but thats another story.
My appologies to everyone for the multiple reply. Hopefully they will be removed. Not my day today. I should have stayed in bed.
