<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>
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