From: Vladimir (stoli_photo@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 21:29:20 EDT
Does anyone know if there is a schematic anywhere for dissasembly of
the CP 880 ? I dropped mine and the zoom lens must have snapped
partially out of it's housing. Hate to pay $215 for the repair....so
either I fix it or I ditch it! They are very fragile as you mention
in your post !
Thanks.... Vladimir
--- In NikonCoolPix@yahoogroups.com, "oldrockygn" <jimbetz@j...>
wrote:
> This is a follow-up to the "I dropped my 950" posts.
> To refresh your memory I dropped my Coolpix - in its
> supplied softcase - from waist high to a wood floor.
> It landed flat on the floor on one of the large faces
> with a sickening thump ...
> After that drop there was no external damage whatsoever
> (OK, the battery and CF card doors were popped open but
> they weren't damaged and all I had to do was simple close
> them). But when I turned the camera on I heard a 'continuous
> ratcheting/grinding sound' followed by the dreaded "System
> Error" in red on the LCD - and the camera wouldn't power
> off without popping the battery door open.
>
> Folks - take EXTRA care with your Coolpix cameras! If
> you drop it or even whack it hard during normal handling
> it is highly likely that it will be damaged. The internals
> of the lens/viewfinder part of the camera are rather
> poorly designed in terms of 'sensitivity to shock'. Having
> opened one up and gone thru it I can tell you that there
> are several ways you can get the dreaded "System Error" if
> you drop your Coolpix.
>
> I'm really disappointed that the problem even happened. To
> my way of thinking if a camera doesn't sustain any exterior
> damage whatsoever then nothing inside it should be thrown
> off either. In doing the research for this repair what I
> learned (I had an idea before but didn't really comprehend
> the fact fully) is that the Coolpix line is seriously flawed
> in this manner. When I went thru the repair it became even
> more obvious that the guts of the camera are HIGHLY prone
> to failure from any kind of hard bump. There are lots of
> little design flaws in how the Coolpix lens assemblies are
> built and implemented that will produce similar failures.
> Failures which, in my opinion, will make lots of the cameras
> go to the junk heap far before they should.
>
> In addition - the repairs for this kind of failure are
> being highly over-charged for by NikonUSA. If I can repair
> my 950 in two hours - without any special tools or training -
> and the first time I've ever opened one up ... then it is
> hard to understand why it costs something in the range of
> $200 to have it done by Nikon's 'trained technicians'. OK,
> so their guarantee of the fix and the availability of parts
> on the shelf if they need them is worth something ... it
> still seems a bit exorbitant that we pay well over $100/hr
> for repairs that can be done with nothing more than common
> sense and a small Phillips screw driver!
>
> From my point of view - it was well worth it for me to
> attempt the repairs myself. I'm not sure I could have
> packaged and gotten the camera shipped to Nikon for less
> than an hour of my time (don't forget the trip to the
> shipping facility and the cost of the shipping). When
> you balance that two hours I spent against sending the
> camera to Nikon and having it unusable for a couple of
> weeks or so - and the cost of shipping and repairs - well
> it seems obvious to me that I made the right choice when
> I decided to "open it up and see what I find".
> Yes, I have some 'related experience' in dissembling
> and working with miniaturized equipment - but I am
> certainly not a camera repair technician (although this
> experience makes me think seriously about 'hanging out my
> shingle' ... *G*).
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