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Ah, but Tom, things do move on. I bought a Canon 450D digital camera before the problem earlier referred to became known, and that is a most satisfying piece of equipment. So I guess one has to be careful not to chew on these things too long. I suppose that if it was new technology at the time of ma...

Ordinarily I would readily accept that eventually things wear out and need to be replaced. What we have here, however, is not the result of fair wear and tear, but rather devices (capacitors in this case) which the manufacturer chose and fitted and which have failed with the result that the whole ca...

I guess you are saying what I didn't want to think, but of course you are correct. They do say that technology is out of date the moment one walks out of the shop!

I have a Canon EX2 Hi8 video camera which I bought new in 1994 or 1995. It seems that these cameras have inside them a number of circuit boards and a number of those (if not all of them) have capacitors which are filled with a corrosive. On many of the cameras these capacitors have leaked and wrecke...