SWMBO drops new camera :(

[M005]

We'd had it all of, ooh an hour, we get home and she drops it on the kitchen floor. Not helped by the fact that she doesn't hold it properly, more like a very delicate item, rather than something than requires you get a good hold it it & the strap so as not to drop it....

It is a Cannon IXUS 860, lens was in and it fell ~ 4ft onto lino with chipboard underneath rather than concrete.

It seems to be working fine, and the picture quality seems OK, however I'm not sure if low light performance without the flash is worse.

Comments on possible damage etc?

TIA

[LotusJas]

Canon Ixus are very well built, so looks like you've got away with it ok. My 6 year old has an old Ixus 300 and it's had more than a few knocks. Works flawlessly.

[r5gttgaz]

LotusJas said:

Canon Ixus are very well built, so looks like you've got away with it ok. My 6 year old has an old Ixus 300 and it's had more than a few knocks. Works flawlessly.

I bet he wishes his works floorlessly.

[DanH]

M005 said:

It seems to be working fine, and the picture quality seems OK, however I'm not sure if low light performance without the flash is worse.

Seriously unlikely that you've changed its low light performance! Sounds like you may have got away with it.

[Luca Brazzi]

Hopefully a lesson was learned...and it would seem to be ok.

[looop]

I use an old ixus as a party/drunk/carry anywhere camera. I have dropped it loads of times and it looks like its been through a war zone and it keeps on going

[M005]

Cheers guys, puts my mind at rest a bit.

Funny how such a situation turns so quickly into being my fault as aparently I shouldn't react badly or be angry......women....think world peace would be easier to understand some days

[pikey]

I had an IXUS for a year as my social / drunk / disposable camera. It got dropped so many times I lost count - continued to work without fault although the casing got a bit wartorn!

[aspender]

If it all seems to be working then I guess you are lucky, though I suspect you are hinting that the IS might be buggered?

If you were really unlucky you would get an E18 error: http://www.e18error.com/

[pikey]

aspender said:

If you were really unlucky you would get an E18 error: http://www.e18error.com/

Strange site that.

I dropped a Sony P1 on it's extended lens and it gave a similar error message. My fault, couldn't fix it myself, threw it away - did't moan about it being Sony's fault though. My Panasonic LUMIX had its lens do funny things when sand got in it. Didn't think that was Panasonic's fault either.

[M005]

Agree, that is a strange site.

If it is buggered then its the wife's fault and nothing to do with Canon.

Hopefully got away with it and from what Pikey says maybe they are like nokia phones, indestructable.

[NiceCupOfTea]

You may think it strange - plenty of people's cameras have done the same thing with no provocation. My Canon S70 was handled really carefully, never abused, never dropped, never exposed to sand or anything.

Mine came up with the e17 error when out of warranty and is now effectively scrap. Won't be buying Canon again.