Hairline crack
 

My FX-7 has a hairline crack near the top in line with the exposure iris button around a 1/4 inch below the top divide this is a bit of a concern as sony cams have not given me great reliability to be honest.MY FX-7 has never been dropped or treated roughly.

Is there a question there somewhere?

Got a picture of it? Could it be a molding line? It's possible you got some sort of stress fracture, but it's probably not a big deal as long as nothing's wobbling.

Alan i am a bit concerned that i wont have another repair thats all.
Dave i now think its the moulding line has split lets hope it does not get worse,Thanks

Q1: do you still have warranty ?

Q2: if not, why dont you try a little (!!) bit of "Quick-glue"
If it is a crack, just to seal it

volki

No max its out of guarentee,if the crack widens i might try glue but it would meen only using a fraction as glue getting down in may cause bigger problems.

1. a picture is worth a 1000 words....... show us your crack (in the nicest possible way ;-))

2. gaffer tape - my wife's car is held together with it!

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Its either the moulding has split or i am concerned fot no reason.

You are concerned for no reason.

That's not a crack.

It's a joint/seam between the two halves of the camera body... if you take out the correct number of screws in the proper order, it MIGHT fall apart... maybe...

To quote a famous author "DON'T PANIC!" your camers is just fine and healthy!

I've got a line like that too. I think that crack has been placed there in the factory by Sony!

It's a split-line between the two moldings on either side of the body. That's intentional!

5 out of 5 DVinfo experts agree... don't worry Martyn! I can understand though if you're not one of those inclined to take things apart <wink>!

The fact there is a moulding line on the tiny ring behind the lens hood and the fact the line i was concened with[cant believe i have not noticed it before]does not look like a built in line caused my SLIGHT concern.It must have given you all a laugh.

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Hard to see.. but under the barrel (near the push-to-autofocus button) and anywhere else you see black electrical tape is where plastic cracked off... and the tape is holding it together... hopefully nothing else breaks (the main issue was the microphone mount broke off, and when Sony sent it back to me with a $850 quote for repairs, I said... uhh no... but they didn't bother to re-attach the microphone, so I had to tear the entire handle apart with no guides/diagrams...

But after it was all done, the Mic works, it's held on pretty well, and that's all I care about...

I wasn't very nice to it though... =/

Fx-7
 

Martyn, I don't think it will last long at all.... I'll take it off your hands...maybe I could use it for parts or something !