Miracle Camera

This is a FujiFilm FinePix f700 digital camera. Deanna purchased this in Jan 06. I had been researching cameras and found that the reviews on it were good so Deanna bought one. The reviews said that it had great image quality (it does). There was also a mention of durability.

Apparently Deanna didn't believe the reviews because she decided to put it to the durability
test.




We were on a mission trip in Mexico in March. The little ones were taking a swim in a pool after we got back from serving. Deanna had gotten in the habit of twirling this camera by its lanyard on her index finger. She just happened to be passing by the pool at the point the camera flipped off of her finger. It bashed on the cement just before doing a canon-ball into the pool. She stood there dumbfounded for several seconds staring at the camera at the bottom of the pool. Once it was retrieved, we left it to dry out for a couple days. (In the mean time we purchased another camera.)


Well as you would expect, the camera didn't work right. There was water inside the LCD screen, and in the inner-workings. The bash on the concrete probably wasn't helping it either. It did keep trying to turn on though.
Deanna put the camera away until this past week when she brought it down thinking that she could take it somewhere and have it refurbished. She'd pressed the buttons to no avail. Someone asked if the battery was still good. So she took the battery out of the replacement camera (they're compatible) and put it in. This camera turned on, takes pictures and is fully functional as though no-one had ever abused it. (It still has the dent in the side though.)

We ought to get paid by Fuji for this post.

I guess we did in one sense. We don't have to purchase another camera...