Most people don’t, but the age of repair shops is slowing fading away in every part of the consumer market. I don’t know of any local shops anymore that repair camers, Ritz was the only one I knew of and they are closed down… No surprise there. Most places that are still in buisnes are still on the higher flat rate side (talking about any repair shop) because they need to be to stay open.
Chances are you going to have to send it out, but like anything since you’ve gotten that camera… newer, better, less expensive ones have come out and you mine as well jsut get something new. I’d honestly be suprised if you saved more then 50 bucks sending it in to get fixed vs buying a new one thats probably worlds better.
My TV was about 2200 when I bought it… A new PDP panel for it is around 1200 bucks
I can right now go buy one of the new samsung models that replaced mine, or the panasonic that has better specs and image quality than mine for about 1800-2000
Now if I replaced the PDP panel myself, would it be worth it? Yeah maybe if I wanted to save 600 bucks and have an obselete model. I’d rather just spend that 600 and get the latest and greatest. Chances are if I brought it into a repair shop they would charge me a few hundred bucks to replace it in which case its most deff not worth it