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18 February 2025 at 16.44

My much loved little Sony digital camera, which is over ten years old, is malfunctioning. 

It's been making little graunchy noises when the lens telescopes for a little while. But now it's stuck on out even when the camera is off. And despite following the camera's request to turn it off and on again I can't get it back in.

The question is.

The nearest Jessops is in York but there is a camera repair shop listed in old Eldon Square (AMP). Is it worth making enquiries.

Or should I just bite the bullet and get a new one from Argos - a similar Canon would set me back £300+ a cheap AGFA £50odd.

Not having a camera is not an option.

Dulcima  I took a camera to the Old Eldon Square shop, many years ago.  I am surprised it's still there, if it's the same one! I think it was up several flights of stairs.  Worth investigating,  I would have thought.

Pink Shipskitchen  APM Camera Repairs are closed until the 21st according to their Facebook, but you could try ringing or emailing them for advice before making the trek into Newcastle!

You could also try the London Camera Exchange on Gosforth High Street either for a repair, or they do second hand cameras if you did need to replace it.  The current secondhand stock is on their website

Miss Doozer  Mine went the same way. It was the motor and a £200 repair. You can get a new camera for that, and the bobby basic ones nowadays are pretty fab.

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I searched around the office and unearthed two brand new, still in their boxes, rather posh Lumix digital cameras which Fester bought some years ago when he started on his neverending list of pits.

He’d intended using one to photograph documents in museums to look at on-screen at home at his leisure, rather than spend time poring over them in situ restricted by opening hours.

“You work out how to work yours then you can show me.”

Many spouses will understand that, more often than not, teaching one another to do anything always ends in tears – or at the least a huge row and temper tantrum.

As a man with three degrees he's perfectly capable of working it out for himself, and less likely to ask me the same questions every time he used it.   

“Bugger that” I said “you can work it out for yourself” and acquired the simple little Sony from Argos.

However, I am now using one of the Lumix.

It’s four times bigger and heavier than the Sony, and has far too many functions for a point-and-shoot girl like me.