Camcorder repair

[Frank Gasking]

Sadly I dropped my camcorder yesterday while filming and didn't know if anyone knows the best place to take them for repair?

Cosmetically its fine, it comes on still... but comes up with a EMG EJECT message flashing, but the eject button now doesnt work (Nor does the play, stop or control buttons).

Luckily I got the party recorded over before it happened... but a tape stuck inside has stuff of my little girl on, including her party I think

Any ideas? Its a Samsung Mycam K60 - 8mm analogue camera... looks like Samsung doesn't support it anymore

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well, as i no longer live there Frank i can't be specific, but can go from how things were when i was there.

firstly, even if the camcorder is no longer supported by Samsung, are there any Samsung-endorsed repair shops around your area? even if Samsung doesn't support it now, they might still repair it.

secondly, if the above fails to yield any fruit, try the local electronics or camera repair shops and see if they repair camcorders. back in the 80s, a long time back i know, video rentals shops used to have video/computer repairs. the one in our town had a repair shop above the shop, and I took my zx81 there to be resoldered.

those are just suggestions, and others may know of better ideas. but to me if its just the buttons, I would suspect it shouldn't be too hard to fix. maybe when it was dropped some wiring came loose or something.

heres hoping its nothing serious and can be sorted cheaply. I know with us, when we film the kids, I don't care if the camcorder gets smashed to pieces, as long as the tape is perfectly intact. we can always buy another camcorder but we can't buy back those moments on film.

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