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Canon Camera Repair

Canon Camera Repair

If your latest-technology Canon digital or digital SLR camera gets broken, the first thing I would advise you to do is to contact Canon as they are the experts on Canon camera repair and take the camera to their nearest branch. If for example you need a Canon camera repair done in the uk, simply send  your camera to Canon UK. Their phone numbers and contact details for their repair services can normally be found on Canon websites.

NO PROBLEM – If you live in a far-flung  country with no known nearby Canon offices, you can courier your camera to a repair centre. You will  have to give them your card information so they can charge you . Another option would be send it direct to the importing company but we advise against that normally.

If you’re into Old Canon cameras and you have a 35mm camera and wouldn’t mind spending £200-300 for Canon camera repair services, send the camera back to Canon. 

The NUMBER ONE camera repair issue is: Broken LCD screens.

You buy that brand new Canon digital camera with all the bells and whistles for £400, and guess what; in 6 months to 1 year it’s worth about half, and then the unthinkable happens: you drop it. Canon camera repair to the rescue.

canon camera repairThe LCD is cracked and requires a Canon camera repair, is a very common phrase we hear or a popular one is everything is getting jammed.

You head back to the Canon camera repair shop with your broken camera and the guy behind the counter (that knows nothing about cameras except for what’s written on the box, and even less about any Canon camera repair) says it’s not worth fixing  it and the best thing to do is to throw it. If you get this scenarion; DONT THROW IT. There are ALWAYS alternatives for every problem. It may however cost £250 to fix your Canon digital camera, check.

It was hard to choose Number 1, between a jammed lens and a broken LCD screen as both are items we often receive complaints about. but I stuck with LCD as number one because it’s so easy to break your LCD.

Canon Camera Repair – Protecting Your LCD Screen

  • The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is the view screen at the rear of the camera that lets you see menus and playback. The LCD is very thin, extremely fragile, and on many modern cameras completely unprotected. Take a look at the back of your camera and see if  the screen is  slightly recessed or is it flat and smooth? If you find it’s flat you have a protective ‘window’ or ‘glass’ over the LCD which prevents damage.  If it’s not flat, you have nothing whatsoever protecting your LCD and its therefore a good idea to get a good quality LCD screen protector.
  • Don’t leave your camera in your vehicle in summer or winter. Extreme heat can cause expansion of the liquid in the LCD and cause it to ‘crack’, and also extreme cold can cause the liquid to freeze!  Yet another useful tip from the Canon camera repair team.
  •  Don’t rest anything against the LCD in your camera bag, it will bang against it and crack it ( even if it has a window over it) another job for the Canon camera repair team
  •  Don’t forget your camera is in your back pocket and sit on it
     Don’t put your camera in your front pocket as you may roll over on it.

             Basically – Dont put the camera in your pockets at all 

Canon Camera Repair – It’s broken, what do you do now?

If you approach the manufacturer for a Canon camera repair, they will often try to say that it was impact damage and will refuse to do a Canon camera repair,even if it wasn’t dropped, You can try, and I wish you luck,

Try looking for a defective camera on Ebay – ( often a previous Canon camera repair job.)  Then try to make one good camera from the two. You will need a bit of Canon camera repair knowledge however.

There are quite a few Canon camera repair businesses online, check them out. Be careful, you do not want somebody that will send it to the manufacturer and tell you it’s £200 and up to 6 weeks to repair. (If they tell you this, they are NOT repairing the camera for you, they are sending it to the manufacturer. What a con.

Canon camera repair -Replacing an LCD screen

Some LCD screens are easy to install and you can do it yourself, you just need a small screwdriver. Other LCD’s can be very difficult to install, and even the professionals regularly involved with Canon camera repair jobs, don’t like doing them. The decision is yours really.How is an LCD replaced?

Here is some good news. With most Canon digital camera LCD screens all you do is disconnect the ribbon cable for the LCD and the backlight (the light that shines through the LCD and allows you to see what is on the screen) and then install the new LCD screen. Some of them come with the backlight attached, others do not. Some of the backlights need to be soldered to the mainboard of the camera, others do not. Canon make Canon camera repair for the non professional easier than many other makes.

Do not touch the flash capacitor contacts! You WILL give yourself a shock if you do, which may be a bit painful. You will probably throw your camera across the room when it happens. Professionals use a thing called  a ‘flash capacitor discharger’ 

Canon Camera Repair – Final Thoughts

I hope this article has been of some help. Dont throw a good canon camera away, there is a good chance you can repair it yourself. Who knows, you may become a Canon camera repair expert. If you dont fancy it there are many reputable firms online offering repairs at the right price.

All the best from the CanonCamerasReview team
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