Canon Cameras

My Canon powershot SD550 Digital Elph flash not working?

I had this camara for a years now and the flash just broke. Can someone help me? Should I buy a light bulb to replace it? (If so where can I get the light bulb?) or trade it for SD800IS. how much will it cost me to get it repair?

Public Comments

1. I spent over 25 years working in the Consumer Repair Electronics business. Today and for the last 10 years at least 100% of all items priced under $300 are "throw - away" and were never really intended to be repaired, only certain things on items priced between $300 and $700 have some parts available that can be purchased and replaced. If you spend more then $700 on an item then you fully expect to find most parts available most of the time. At one point with the service center at Best Buy in St. Louis, we went from around $100,000 in parts inventory on hand in 1990 to well over a million in parts inventory on hand by 1994 for just one location out of well over 40 locations. When you build and sell 40 million widgets to go along side hundreds and thousands of other items just imagine how much part stock inventory accumulates? Now imagine why no one would stock a "flash bulb"? Go buy a new camera and keep the Earth spinning on its axis