We live in an age of disposable electronics. Basically, buy a product, get a couple year’s use out of it, and then it either goes bad, or you buy a new one, and throw the older product away.

My parents owned an RCA VCR (remember those?) for 17 years before it went bad on them. This is a long time for any electronic device. But it still worked for all those years. Since then, they tried to get a couple more VCRs, both of which died within 2 years (and keep in mind this is average usage). Glad we can buy a cheap VCR/DVD combo now for $40 eh?

We here at Darntoothysam.com see a lot of the very same digital camera models coming in for consistently similar repairs. I’m going to call out 2 cuplrits today, the Sony H-Series Shutter Button and the Canon SD850 Digital Camera Lens Repair.

These two are the absolute most popular repair. Yet from both Sony and Canon, nil on what is wrong, and no talks of a recall for what amounts to product defect.
The lenses we replace/repair are not damaged from customer misuse, most of the SD850s we bring in are in tip top shape, and well cared for. They just stop working. And since they are out of warranty, Canon will do nothing but charge an arm and a leg to replace the lens/camera.

And Sony H-Series Digital Cameras are no better, in the short time we’ve offered the shutter button/button assembly, we’ve seen those sales skyrocket, as apparently this is a very common problem across all H-Series Digital Cameras. The fix is very simple, and all it would have taken to prevent this from ever happening would have been a slightly better manufacturing process.

Needless to say, if you have any questions on your SD850 or H-Series camera, please don’t hesitate to email us! Our business is driven to offer you the lowest price possible, certainly far less than Sony or Canon will charge to fix something that probably never should have been an issue in the first place.