Question about Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Camera

Canon SD600 I accidentally submerged my camera in a cup of beer. It still turns on but the screen is discolored and its really hard to take pictures the button is really sticky. Is there anyway to fix this or am I looking at buying a new one?

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Hello, You are facing several problems that must be first taken care of. The lens assembly is not sealed ermetically so if beer got into it..that's bad because no service center can dissasemble the lens assembly to clean them. However you should take your chance. First of all the camera needs to be dissasembled. Second, it's main board and buttons must be washed in something called izopropilic alcohol. Then the internal battery and external one must be removed and eventually a firmware update should be done. You may have all of these done in a service center, they aren't that expensive repairs. If after this repairs the pictures will come out blurry or distorded this means that the lens assembly was damaged. I think however that you should try these first. Please go to a service center, try the smaller ones, generic "camera repair service", not the larger ones working for large corporation (they tend to be expensive). Ask them for a cost estimate before actually repairing the camera. For more informations please reply back here. Good luck.

Posted on May 02, 2007

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