The case of the waterlogged Fuji

Sofie has a rather nice compact camera I bought her, a Fujifilm FinePix F50fd. On Monday, Gillian decided to give it a bath. We're not sure exactly how long it was in there, but it got a good dunking. On Monday night, the camera wouldn't turn on at all. On Tuesday morning, the camera would turn on but it was in a pretty bad way. It made sad beeping noises and refused to extend the lens, throwing up a "zoom error." Tuesday night the lens would extend most of the time, but the rear LCD was showing inverted colours and was flickery. Wednesday morning the LCD came good and the camera would take pictures but it was having trouble with AF lock, and the pictures came out all blurry. Thursday the blurriness had disappeared and Sofie used it to take these pictures at Ripponlea. The pictures out of the camera look fine, all that remained was a little blotchiness on the rear LCD. Friday even the blotchiness had disappeared. Pretty amazing, eh?

Posted by Ian Donaldson