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I bought this camera in '04 and it's been a great camera.  The last time I had it repaired I told myself I wasn't going to put anymore money into it.  I started having trouble with it (error 99) while I was in LA and shot a lot of my vacation pictures with my small Canon PowerShot (which has more megapixels than this big dog).  I took it into the shop and it was going to cost nearly $300 to have it cleaned and repaired.  I emailed my brother Chuck for advice and he wrote this back:  Photography is your oxygen.  You need it to live.