Broken camera update. Canon provides a website so you can check on the status of equipment you have in their service center being worked on. Last Monday I received an estimate of $195 to fix my camera. I said “ok” and they charged my credit card for the amount. So far so good. The “status” on their website changes and shows my repair as “accepted”. So far so good. Yesterday, I checked the website and the status had changed to “re-estimate”. Rut roh raggy. I called the service line to see what the deal was and basically had to wait until the repair center was open so they could find out what was happening directly from the tech. I get a bad feeling about this. So, I call first thing this morning and find out that I should expect a new email with a revised estimate in it. I also check my credit card and find that the $195 I had paid on Monday had been credited back.

I get an email.

I immediately see the line of text that says “shutter release count (77,980) exceeds shutter life - re-estimated for major parts and labor”. Guess what the new total is?

 $610

Now I have to decide what to do. I was contemplating getting a new camera and using this camera, once repaired, as a backup. I could just leave this camera unrepaired and get a new(er) one, but I would still be without a backup. Sigh.