A few days after entering in Laos, my camera (Panasonic Lumix G3) stopped working: the power on\/off switch does not react anymore. Laos is quite a bad place for such an issue: I did not find any distributor of a current and affordable \u00b54\/3 camera in Vientiane! And a repair shop on a dusty street does not give me much confidence\u2026<\/p>\n
On one side, I am frustrated not to be able to click picture anymore: Laos is such a photogenic country with stunning landscapes and smiling people! One the other side, I am learning how to travel without camera: it is nice to go around without any camera bag! Many sights were taken already; I just have to find the proper shots on the Internet\u2026 I am finishing my journey in Laos now, and though about going to Bangkok to get my camera repaired or find a new one. They told me per Emali they need 7 to 45 days, depending if they have the parts. The newer model, the G5, is overpriced in Thailand so it is not an option. And my Canon DSLR is sleeping at home: I hope I can get it somehow\u2026<\/p>\n
Update in Cambodia: Panasonic opened a Service Center in Phnom Phen in 2012. I brought my camera there, but a few days after, they told me they have to change the PCB and might need up to 45 days to wait for the part from Singapore. So I got it back and send it back to Panasonic Germany on the 5th<\/sup> of March, where it is still under warranty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few days after entering in Laos, my camera (Panasonic Lumix G3) stopped working: the power on\/off switch does not react anymore. Laos is quite a bad place for such an issue: I did not find any distributor of a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31eG3-7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}