So, I drove over a Nikon Flash. Help please!

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Hey guys

I'm not going to bother going into the details, but I drove over a Nikon SB-26 flash last night by accident, and It needs to be repaired or replaced. It still works, but the very bottom of it is busted - the shell is cracked. So I need to either replace the flash altogether, or have it repaired. I don't know anything about photography, so I don't know what is usually done in a case like this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Screeper]

Ouch.
Not sure if you can even buy the SB-26 new anymore...
If you need to replace it i would drop the helpful people at http://www.sacamera.co.za a call/email and ask their advice on availability and or a worthy replacement.
Be warned, new Nikon flashes start at around the R2000 mark and stampede upwards from there..

[Frozenfireside]

R5 and buy a tub of super Glue gets my vote.

[hamin_aus]

Throw it away and claim from insurance

[SBSP]

Now its the perfect time to replace everything with Canon.



Cant you find out from nikon who does repairs on their cameras if they dont fix it them selves.
Then just ask that company if you can buy a broken one from them. then just fix it your self.

You seem to mod everything why dont you mod it with perspex flashes are mostly squareish, Hehe!!

[RuadRauFlessa]

ooh a glow in the neon-phosphorus coating on a see through perspex casing for a flash. Could look real nifty

[Sojourn]

Throw it away and claim from insurance

Trust a capy to be industrious.

[Sojourn]

I am sure this thread qualify as an entry into a "I am a nub driver" or "I pwnd myself" or whatever "I am a tool" thread we have for these people with moments of acute reversed intelligence.

[RuadRauFlessa]

Nah it just belongs in the fail thread. I mean DAE_JA_VOO, how do you drive over a flash. Forgot to put it in the boot?

[Kronos]

Throw it away along with the camera and buy a decent camera, ie. Canon.

[lancelot]

I have this awful feeling that the camera is not his?

[Anthro]

Is it Ophrah's flash ?? DUUDE !!
I concur, either mod it.. or buy CANON
I do read that

but the very bottom of it is busted

- that is normally where it attaches to the camera, have you tested it by reconnecting it to the camera and taking some snaps atleast ??