anna_k5

<p>Thanks for the responses.<br> <br />I'm going to wait to perform surgery and look for parts, etc, until I get to Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have a friend there who works in advertising and he has all sort of contacts that could be helpful. It's probably better for me to wait until I'm somewhere a bit more settled. The road, for an itinerant photographing cyclist is a dirty dusty kind of place.<br> The camera still functions okay but it <em>was</em> a hell of a blow. It was in its soft case inside my backpack but it must of hit at just the right angle to shear off. I didn't know it was broken until I took it out later to take a photo and as I took it out of the case the lens just dropped out of the body and rolled down the street. Ouch.<br> I kind of would like an upgrade anyway but that's a different story and probably requires its own post.<br> Thanks again.</p> <p> </p>

<p>Ah, I managed to add an image.</p><div></div>

<p>Hello,<br> <br />I dropped my LUMIX GF1 and the lens mount of my 14-42 lens is broken. I am travelling in South America and decent camera shops are few and far between so I thought I'd post here to try to canvass opinion on whether or not the damage is potentially repairable. I would like to post some photos of the damage but I can't seem to manage the edit image function. So all I can say the plastic bit that locks the lens into the body is broken and hope that that makes some kind of sense.<br> <br />Thanks for any information you can give me.</p> <p>Anna</p> <div></div>