Can Canon fix a smashed camera?

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Hello all, 4 months ago I was involved in a really bad accident. I was out shooting and had my 5DIII with my 70-200II attached and on my person when a 2 ton truck came and hit me and another person. Now that I am starting to mend I'm starting to think about my damaged equipment. The 5DIII was smashed and the body is broke and even dented some. It's bad, I'm sure some internal parts where destroyed. That being said, its a 3400 dollar camera so I was wondering if canon might take the good insides, replace the bad and put all if it into a new body. Even if it cost 1500 dollars it would be worth it considering I found the now for 2700. I would save 1200 if it could work. I think it's a bit of a crazy question but I need to find out for sure before dismissing it.
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What Canon can do and will do may be very different things and you're not going to find out unless you speak to them directly. We'd only be guessing here (although my guess is that they won't think it's worthwhile).
Can't you claim against the driver/owner/operator of the truck that hit you and get a new one?
 
Snapsh0t said:
What Canon can do and will do may be very different things and you're not going to find out unless you speak to them directly. We'd only be guessing here (although my guess is that they won't think it's worthwhile).
Can't you claim against the driver/owner/operator of the truck that hit you and get a new one?
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The driver did not have insurance. Thank goodness I have insurance that will cover it. Because they were such low lives my insurance had to pay for everything and I am out over 40k. I want a second body but mostly I was thinking about any way I could try to make up for the loss I have taken. Getting a second body for a lot less would be one way of doing that.
 
I would imagine if they could fix it the man hours they'd bill you for would pay for a new one.
 
I would suspect as has been said it'll be the labour costs that's will probably be more prohibitive then anything, but I suppose the only way to know for definite is to speak to them and ask - you never know !!!
 
rjbell said:
I would imagine if they could fix it the man hours they'd bill you for would pay for a new one.
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Your probably right but if it could be fixed for a 1000 less than a new one I will save a thousand. It's 2am here. I will call Canon in the morning and pick their brain. Last time I did this they wouldn't even give me a price for a specific job. They said I needed to send it in for an estimate even though I knew exactly what I needed done.
 
I suspect that Canon USA will give you an estimate for a repair that would then alllow you to decide if the repair costs were acceptable to you. If so then you could tell Canon to do the repair. If a repair isn't ecconomical then you could sell the body on line for spares
 
ST1 said:
If a repair isn't ecconomical then you could sell the body on line for spares
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....Surely people don't attempt to repair or replace internal digital camera components themselves, so the spares market would be virtually non existent?
 
You can buy spares and repair isn't that hard especially the electronic components.
One item for an example is the main fuse or dc/dc board, no different to replacing parts in something like a laptop

Sticky shutter button is another repair, instructions online and not beyond any competent person
 
Send the camera to Canon for an estimate. It won't hurt and it won't cost you anything. I don't have any real experience of broken cameras, but I've seen far more than my fair share of totally broken lenses, some even separated into two or more parts, and it's very rare indeed for a repair to be uneconomic.
 
From the look of those photos I doubt there will be much inside worth reusing. You'd probably be spending your money on all the bits and then for them to put it together, a new factory one would be cheaper, and they wouldn't do it either.

If you were fully insured then surely your insurance company will replace it? I don't see how you can be $40k out of pocket if you were fully insured, unless it works completely different out in "the good old U S of A"!!
 
I have the paint worn badly from the corner on my 5d mk3, from rubbing on my clothing whilst being carried. Canon suggested they could only replace the body casings at around £400 estimate.
 
shaylou said:
Mine did that too. I have a new 5DIII and I am trying to figure out what I can put on it to protect it in case I want to sell it later.
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....Surely, worn off paint is purely cosmetic and shouldn't put someone off buying it? You should have seen my Nikon SLR bodies!
 
Looking at that, I'd say that's well written off :(
 
twist said:
I think paint rubs do put people off buying, best condition = best price.
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....I think you are probably right. However, a well used Canon 1DX with only cosmetic wear-n-tear and not a ridiculously high actuations count, could be a great opportunity. And anyway, I'm told that shutter units are easy to replace.
 
RedRobin said:
....I think you are probably right. However, a well used Canon 1DX with only cosmetic wear-n-tear and not a ridiculously high actuations count, could be a great opportunity. And anyway, I'm told that shutter units are easy to replace.
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I'm getting some thoughts about PXing one of my 5D3 for 1DX. I will do it one day. However just to be clear even that won't survive such impact, no chance.
 
RedRobin said:
....Surely, worn off paint is purely cosmetic and shouldn't put someone off buying it? You should have seen my Nikon SLR bodies!
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Mine is seriously worn in 9 months of street photography. There's a photo on the 5d mk3 thread.
 
Byker28i said:
Mine is seriously worn in 9 months of street photography. There's a photo on the 5d mk3 thread.
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....117 pages in that thread! So I haven't looked for your photo, @Byker28i but I would be interested to see an example of such wear-n-tear on a pro build body.
 
Nah still works ok, I asked Canon about touch up paint, they just said all they could do was to swap the casings and no-one else had had issue with paint wearing so I must have misued it.
 
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