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Hello guys,
my second Ricoh Caplio GX died: when I press the POWER switch, I can only see continuous light of 2 LEDs: Green (AF) and RED (FLASH). Nothing else ... completely dead.
It is strange that my first camera Ricoh Caplio GX died with the same symptoms, so I'm a little disappointed ... Perhaps it's easy to fix this. Maybe this is a known bug: both were made during same time (little difference in serial No.) and both stopped to work this Year. Maybe some electrolytic capacitor?
What do you think, it makes sense to send this old camera to Ricoh Service in Germany? How much it could cost?
Thank You!
Peter
my second Ricoh Caplio GX died: when I press the POWER switch, I can only see continuous light of 2 LEDs: Green (AF) and RED (FLASH). Nothing else ... completely dead.
It is strange that my first camera Ricoh Caplio GX died with the same symptoms, so I'm a little disappointed ... Perhaps it's easy to fix this. Maybe this is a known bug: both were made during same time (little difference in serial No.) and both stopped to work this Year. Maybe some electrolytic capacitor?
What do you think, it makes sense to send this old camera to Ricoh Service in Germany? How much it could cost?
Thank You!
Peter
Marcus E.
Active Member
Certainly fits the 'Planned Obsolescence' theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence).......Sorry to hear about your GX. Such a good camera, it'd be a shame to not have it fixed IMO. Pricing I know nothing about, so can't help you there.....
triker
Member
dordik":z3mwdjkd said:
Yep: Shipping costs to Pirmasens.
You have to register via internet and prepare an repair request: what you are sending over and why. You will get a quote first when they received the camera. After that you can decide what they should do. Leave it there, send it back unrepaired (last time it was free of charge), repair.
Siegfried
Is it the zoom-engine which has given up? Then it would require a new lens unit and that is not going to be inexpensive or worth it imo. 119 euro, probably for such a repair.
I bought a GX 5mp for like two years ago with a lens which had got stuck in out position because it not had been dropped. Winded the lens back in manually and started it but it was no good. The zoom-engine made some minor attempts to wind the lens out but could not do it. The gears worked well though as I could wind it all the way back in.
I think I've seen a couple of other GX 5mp since then on Ebay with the same problem. Though have not yet seen a GX8 with that issue. Maybe Ricoh fixed it.
Ironically I'm thinking about renovate a Ricoh Caplio 500SE which have the same zoom stuck in out position after having been dropped by the previous owner Bought that one cheaply as defect for parts as I wanted that detachable door for the USB and GPS connection which my other 500SE not had when it arrived. Not all 500SE comes with detachable doors, unfortunately.
The 500SE which I might opt to renovate have seen quite a lot of use. The left zoom-out button and the one for review taken pictures has been overused and works but probably not for many more years to come as that bubble on the inside has got very soft
I bought a GX 5mp for like two years ago with a lens which had got stuck in out position because it not had been dropped. Winded the lens back in manually and started it but it was no good. The zoom-engine made some minor attempts to wind the lens out but could not do it. The gears worked well though as I could wind it all the way back in.
I think I've seen a couple of other GX 5mp since then on Ebay with the same problem. Though have not yet seen a GX8 with that issue. Maybe Ricoh fixed it.
Ironically I'm thinking about renovate a Ricoh Caplio 500SE which have the same zoom stuck in out position after having been dropped by the previous owner Bought that one cheaply as defect for parts as I wanted that detachable door for the USB and GPS connection which my other 500SE not had when it arrived. Not all 500SE comes with detachable doors, unfortunately.
The 500SE which I might opt to renovate have seen quite a lot of use. The left zoom-out button and the one for review taken pictures has been overused and works but probably not for many more years to come as that bubble on the inside has got very soft
I do not know, there is no visible activity except these 2 shining LEDs next to viewfinder (regardles Mode dial wheel). During start, the flash lamp and
auto-focus lamp should blink alternately for several seconds, but in my case there is no blinking. Same situation is also in case when I connect it to USB port (no activity on PC).
> Is it the zoom-engine which has given up?
auto-focus lamp should blink alternately for several seconds, but in my case there is no blinking. Same situation is also in case when I connect it to USB port (no activity on PC).
> Is it the zoom-engine which has given up?
Hello, so I just received the Cost estimate for my broken Caplio GX. I have 3 options:
1) Please initiate repair work at my expense.
2) Please return the system to me unrepaired.
3) Please dispose of the system properly. I do not wish the system to be returned to me.
The first is "Service Level III"= 65 € ( 54,62 € + VAT. 19,00%).
Second option seems to be free of charge (shipping back to Slovak Republic)
1) Please initiate repair work at my expense.
2) Please return the system to me unrepaired.
3) Please dispose of the system properly. I do not wish the system to be returned to me.
The first is "Service Level III"= 65 € ( 54,62 € + VAT. 19,00%).
Second option seems to be free of charge (shipping back to Slovak Republic)
That might be an ok deal if you really want to get the GX repaired again. From various sample images which I've seen I think that the GX8 have a more nice noise pattern, though the GX8 seems to be slightly harder to find on Ebay than the first GX, 5mp. I would think that the internal hardware is mostly unchanged except for the newer ccd. Especially the GX100 have a worse jpg output with visible sharpening artifacts at even when set to -2 and the AF is not quite as rapid as for my Caplio 500SE which basically is GX8 in a rugged shell without aperture priority. So I don't see a clear upgrade path from the GX and GX8 even though the GX100 and GX200 probably are better at many things but also worse at some minor things like fast focusing. I finally tested a GX100 but was left disappointed having to use Dng to get something decent out of it. The 4secs raw-writing was not a problem to me though.
I don't know however you went for the repair deal or not. But there is a GX8 on Ebay which maybe is not too badly priced.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ricoh-Caplio- ... 416e77903e
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ricoh-Caplio- ... 416e77903e
Yes that's ok as long as you've got a good lens with ok edge and corner sharpness. In my 500G wide which have the same lens but the 8mp ccd from GX8 is not very good, unfortunately.dordik":1gw5c453 said:My Caplio GX came last Friday from CONVAR Deutschland. I paid 65Euro total, which seems reasonable. Looks, that I received Lens sub assy replacement for free... Firmware CPU2: V 1.09 I am quit happy
Service parts replaced:
Lens sub assy
Service Level III
My experience wiht the Convar service has been somewhat mixed to say the least. Two repairs which was about a new zoom and ccd for my Ricoh 400G wide left me with a zoom which was rather soft at the corners while it had a very good lens when it was sent in for repair.. I sent it in aother time thinking that the quality control had gone very wrong. It had not, according to the service which seems to think that almost any kind of crap is ok to send out to customers and since refuse to take care of their own mess.
A near mint GRDI sent in for dust issues. The lens was sharp and fine at f2.4 and them replaced the lens with one with soft left and right sides.
A GX100 with iwth crashed zoom and a slight scratch on the lcd screeen which I bought inexpensively on Ebay as renovation object. Replacement of the lcd went all good but the lock latches on the front-ring on the lens was glued wrong so that it looked terribly and I had to fix that myself. At least it was a good lensunit other than that. Sharp even in the corners at 24mm and at the widest aperture.
So following picture shows what it was like before I managed to correct it.
I hope that you and others are having better experiences than me and some other.
33dollars
Active Member
33dollars":1moilukm said:
God, I've gone it again.
Reached for this camera because it was at hand.
Shot some shots with this camera & can't get the images out.
In a way it is broken. No good having a camera that takes images that doesn't let you have them.
Maybe its just the card. But how do I retrieve the images.
Windows XP doesn't even recognize the camera is connected to the PC.
So the camera is bung or it's the SD card. :?:
33dollars
Active Member
Well it is a kerfuffle not being able to retrieve images from any camera.
But I did by putting the SD card into another camera & connecting to the PC that way.
Thank you old school Kodak C433 for your help.
As I said before. The GX was at hand & just want a shot of the early morning sun streaming through my window.
So the camera my not be kaput. It my just be a dodge SD card.
But I did by putting the SD card into another camera & connecting to the PC that way.
Thank you old school Kodak C433 for your help.
As I said before. The GX was at hand & just want a shot of the early morning sun streaming through my window.
So the camera my not be kaput. It my just be a dodge SD card.
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To check however it is the sd card or usb-connection in the camera which have gone kaput. Take a random-pciture with the camera without sd-card in it so that it is stored on the internal memory in the camera and then connect it to a pc and turn on the camera, if needed, and see if it connects.
I think there is the option 'Mass storage and original'. At least there should be as I think that the slightly older Caplio RX was on of the first Ricohs to have that feature.
I think there is the option 'Mass storage and original'. At least there should be as I think that the slightly older Caplio RX was on of the first Ricohs to have that feature.