Flipped canoe with expensive camera in backpack- Lens clea..

Water spot on the lens of a camera.

My camera and I fell into a lake while canoeing. After an attempt to
dessicate the camera, there remained a water spot the size of a pea in
the middle of the lens. I sent the camera to Canon to get the spot
cleaned, and a month and a half later it was sent back, with pictures
of the internal corrosion and a claim that nothing could be done. The
camera works fine, the zoom lens works perfectly, the pictures are
fine, except that in every picture, there is a fuzzy spot in the middle
of the picture. The corrosion is minimal.

How should I clean the spot off the lens? Can I find dissasembly
instructions for the camera somewhere? Can someone reccommend a company
that can fix this sort of a problem?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help
Lauryn

What type of camera/lens. I assume it isn't a dSLR.

A few thoughts. First, assume the camera is broken beyond repair.
Therefore, there's nothing worse that you can do to it?. So, are you
game for a little DIY camera repair? That's likely your best answer.
In some ways it is very fulfilling. When you get done you can say, hey
I fixed it myself. Of course if you screw it up, you throw it out
because that's the likely alternative, anyway.

For some problems, just drying the camera out is the solution. But
even that won't work for you because you'll then have residue on the
lens (in all likelihood).

Did you talk to anyone at Canon. Why wouldn't they fix it? If they
had it apart, I can't understand why they didn't call/email you and say
that you had corrosion and give you the option of fixing it anyway.
Maybe a call to the factory service center might help. The send it in
and say "fix it anyway". Seems to me that if they wouldn't fix it,
they think it is beyond repair.

Good luck with it.

DoubleL wrote:
> Water spot on the lens of a camera.
>
> My camera and I fell into a lake while canoeing. After an attempt to
> dessicate the camera, there remained a water spot the size of a pea in
> the middle of the lens. I sent the camera to Canon to get the spot
> cleaned, and a month and a half later it was sent back, with pictures
> of the internal corrosion and a claim that nothing could be done. The
> camera works fine, the zoom lens works perfectly, the pictures are
> fine, except that in every picture, there is a fuzzy spot in the middle
> of the picture. The corrosion is minimal.
>
> How should I clean the spot off the lens? Can I find dissasembly
> instructions for the camera somewhere? Can someone reccommend a company
> that can fix this sort of a problem?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help
> Lauryn