Replace or repair your camera?
I remember the times when we had a film camera, it served our family for over ten years and we don’t have to worry about upgrading it, we took it to a camera repair shop several times but it was still good to use. Now, in the age of digital cameras, digicams become obsolete as manufacturers try to make a better model each year. 3 years ago, I bought a 5 megapixel digital camera from Canon. It’s a mid-priced digital camera but as resolutions get higher and higher, a 5 megapixel digital camera seems obsolete, considering that most mid-ranged mobile phones sport a 5 megapixel camera too.
So the question of whether to repair or replace your digital camera is a bit tricky. I for one, would probably opt for the replace option as digital cameras become cheaper but of course, it all boils down to the problem of your digital camera. An officemate of mine went to a digital camera repair shop because her Canon camera LCD won’t work. The shop quoted her about ¼ of the original price of her digital camera. It was pretty expensive but it was a good thing that the same camera’s price was still the same when she bought hers, so the natural course would be to just replace the LCD.
Now it seems that Canon camera repair is easy for the same shop, maybe because they have ready parts on hand but when my sister’s Sony digital camera lens was the problem, the price quoted her was more than ½ of the original price and buying a new one with the same model would’ve cost her just a few dollars more.
So when choosing between repairing a camera or just buying a new one, compare the price of repairing it with the price of just buying a new one, but of course, there’s no price that can be put on sentimental value.

