January 23, 200719 yr I have found repeatedly dropping it works pretty well. This works especially well if one performs the repeated dropping in immediately successive steps, such as dropping it down a stairway. What's the difference between a stairway and a stairwell, anyway?
January 23, 200719 yr From m-w.com Stairway: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another Stairwell: a vertical shaft in which stairs are located
January 23, 200719 yr I had an old creative camera... yes, I know I was stupid to buy it. Anyways, it couldn't take a good picture to save its life, so I opened it up and desoldered a bunch of chips. Took it back to futureshop since the screen nolonger worked and got myself a nice point and click 6mp sony camera which I have been very happy with.
January 23, 200719 yr Putting my hat on what exactly is the purpose of the breakage? There are some pretty creative ways to non-destructively render something like this unusable...
January 23, 200719 yr Drill holes in it shoot it stab it freeze it burn it give it a nice hot bath do an Irish jig on it then bury it
January 23, 200719 yr Author I had an old creative camera... yes, I know I was stupid to buy it. Anyways, it couldn't take a good picture to save its life, so I opened it up and desoldered a bunch of chips. Took it back to futureshop since the screen nolonger worked and got myself a nice point and click 6mp sony camera which I have been very happy with. The flash on my unit is absolutely horrible so.... I don't want to leave dents in the camera from dropping it. Another option I've been thinking of is putting something like 16v into the power suppy instead of the 3v it needs. I would like to know what I might expect results wise from doing that (ie. will the ac adapter still work, will fuse blow etc.). Biggie.
January 23, 200719 yr Go to the Ontario Science Centre and get them to zap it with their big Tesla coil.
January 23, 200719 yr The flash on my unit is absolutely horrible so.... I don't want to leave dents in the camera from dropping it. Another option I've been thinking of is putting something like 16v into the power suppy instead of the 3v it needs. I would like to know what I might expect results wise from doing that (ie. will the ac adapter still work, will fuse blow etc.).If it looks like it is easy to open I would do the same thing that I did. If you don't have a soldering iron you could always just rip a couple chips or caps off the board. If this is a futureshop or best buy type return I seriously doubt they will be opening it up to check it.
January 23, 200719 yr The flash on my unit is absolutely horrible so.... I don't want to leave dents in the camera from dropping it. Another option I've been thinking of is putting something like 16v into the power suppy instead of the 3v it needs. I would like to know what I might expect results wise from doing that (ie. will the ac adapter still work, will fuse blow etc.). Biggie. I used a 24V when I cooked mine and the adapter continues to work fine. I mean, in theory that should leave the camera disabled but aesthetically undamaged. I've never seen a fuse inside a digicam and I've had two or three apart.
January 27, 200719 yr Author Doh my variable adapter only goes up to 12v and it didn't fry my camera. However on the 3v setting, something in my camera seems to osolate. Its not breaking anything though. Biggie.
January 30, 200719 yr I have found repeatedly dropping it works pretty well. This works especially well if one performs the repeated dropping in immediately successive steps, such as dropping it down a stairway. What's the difference between a stairway and a stairwell, anyway? Dropping it.... that's my wife's favorite trick; just cost me $100 to get the camera repaired.
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