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    My 4040 is now dead

    have had some probs with my zoom lens for a couple dives
    did two dives this weekend and when i pulled the camera out of the housing the zoom lens fell apart inside :06:

    Where is the best place to have it fixed ???????????????

    I think just to add Pain to the camera loss
    The next dive i had a 4 foot ray swim under me twice and two green morays with in 3 feet of me
    One swam by and grinned at me

    I could feel him saying "" bet you wish you had a camera"

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    you might want to send it too oly they wil Prombly offer you a referb or even better a upgrade.

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    Refurb maybe
    upgrade would need a new housing

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    I think of digicams as having a limited life span. Time to move on, sell the housing on eBay and upgrade to the 8080.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flounderboy
    have had some probs with my zoom lens for a couple dives
    did two dives this weekend and when i pulled the camera out of the housing the zoom lens fell apart inside :06:

    Where is the best place to have it fixed ???????????????

    I think just to add Pain to the camera loss
    The next dive i had a 4 foot ray swim under me twice and two green morays with in 3 feet of me
    One swam by and grinned at me

    I could feel him saying "" bet you wish you had a camera"

    Dive Safe

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    Try calling Oly as suggested. They usually do not have 4040 refurbs to replace yours. They may suggest an upgrade which won't help you with the PT-010 housing. If you can't work out a solution with Oly you can find C4000Z refurbs online for as low as $199.00. I have two of them. It is a lesser feature version of the 4040 but still a 4MP camera and the price is right. It fits in your housing. You can't beat the price.
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    I have a e-mail into Olympus asking for a rough guess on repairs
    and now have been thinking of getting another camera to have as a backup.
    what does the 4040 have that the 4000 doesn't ????

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    I bet
    I cant call ,because I gave up the home phone 5 years ago
    puter is on cable and work gives me a free cell

    I did find c4000 for as low as 179.95
    and about 4 pages of refurbs on ebay

    I think I may just buy a c4000 and then if Olympus will fix mine cheep (yeh right ) will have a 4000 for back up

    I thank all of you for the help

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    Quote Originally Posted by flounderboy
    My 4040 is now dead
    All dive flags shall fly at half mast today!

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