Chipped DSLR body - Repairable?

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Hi all,

I realise to a lot of people this probably seems really fickle but I am quite annoyed with it...

Yesterday I was kindly able to borrow a 75-300mm telephoto lens from a customer of mine, as well as his monopod.

I'm not pointing any blame at him but anyway the end result is that he took my dslr out of my hands and screwed on his monopod, not giving me any chance to see that there wasn't any rubber to protect the plastic casing on my dslr body.

I baby my gear and whilst I realise a DSLR is an instrument / tool and not a piece of art (and that inevitably it will show its age) it's still very annoying that I've taken such good care of it, to then have this happen in a split second! I bought it at Christmas so it's only 2 and a half months old. Is there anyway that the chip can be repaired or should I just learn to move on?!

I guess I could get a battery grip if it can't be repaired (but I'll still know its there!) or use it as an excuse to sell and upgrade to the 750/60D next month.

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Move on. Think of it as a battle scar. You'll be banging the camera into door frames/tables/kids eventually. You can get Canon to replace the rear body shell but it wouldn't be worth it.
 
Yeah I'd upgrade right away, it's ruined!

It's nothing, I have no idea why you would even bother thinking of repairing or replacing for that tiny mark :)
 
Really fickle.. Wouldn't worry about it. In 30 years you'll be looking at the pics you took with it and will have forgotten about that minor blemish on the body (of the camera you no longer have).
 
How much is the camera worth?

Look up 'plastic surgeon' they might be able to help conceal it if it really bothers you. (For plastic repairs obviously, not for body stuff lol)
 
Tbh the only reason to worry about this kind of stuff is re-sale value and I'm not even sure it would matter as far as this is concerned :)
 
It's on the underneath so isn't really visible so just forget about it. You will end up putting it down on rocks or other things so other marks are just a matter of time.

As Phal said the only reason to worry about this is re-sale value, I think it's a 700D that you have so marks won't make to much difference to the value and certainly not worth getting repaired.

I'm very fussy when it comes to looking after stuff but I think in the photography world if all you do is look after the gear then you will end up missing out on a lot of good photos.
 
I managed to add a couple of marks to the base of mine on my trip to Denmark, due to the zip on the side of my leather jacket, exact same height when I have the camera over my shoulder. I forgot the zips are there until it's too late.
 
Move on, the case is there to protect the delicate internals, getting marks is it doing its job. Just like the bumper on a car, though people are very anal about that too; I think it's somewhat of a learnt behaviour. I wouldn't be surprised if most people couldn't really defend their position of being annoyed by minor superficial damage.

This isn't a slight at you or anything either, just an observation that it seems most people get upset about superficial damage of things where that's its job, and don't really know why they're upset about it.

I take care of my stuff as well of course, and it's very rare that I do scuff and damage things but my view is that taking good care is just prolonging its life expectancy, rather than worrying about minor damage.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I managed to add a couple of marks to the base of mine on my trip to Denmark, due to the zip on the side of my leather jacket, exact same height when I have the camera over my shoulder. I forgot the zips are there until it's too late.
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I do that kind if thing all the time. And I've given up caring.

The OP has demonstarted, however anak you are over gear it will get damaged and marked. Gear is for using, jf b it is cosmetic then forget about it.
 
If your going to spend money getting every tiny mark your camera pick up repaired then you might as well put it in the display case right now and give up taking pictures. Knocks and dings are common place remember it's a tool and a cheap piece of consumer electronics that will be out of date in 5 years and likely replaced so it's never going to be a collectors item and the second hand buyer won't give to hoots about that sort of tiny cosmetic blemish.
 
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