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The Rise and fall of my Canon G7 camera:

- January 2007 - Bought 3 weeks before leaving Sydney, early 2007, it lasted 4 days in Japan before deciding to stop working after a rather bad rain storm in Okayama.

- September 2007 - 6 months and many phone calls later, I send it back to Australia to get fixed and they reply: "the camera is working perfectly, it was your charger that wasn't working."

- August 2008 (so only a year of real use), the zoom lever breaks and zooming becomes unreliable.

- September 2008 dirt gets into the lens and ever since various particles enter my photos at random moments.

- November 2008 white bands start to appear on photos and exposure seems to be unreliable.

- January 2009 photos often seem to be purple in the lcd screen but come out ok

- March 2009 photos are now coming out purple, with duplicate copies, strange lines across the image, often overexposed.

What next?