Well...
Pasofever said:
...this could be a test of friendship, but, yes, there must be some hope as you did allow this unmentionable to hold your camera in the first place thereby implying a certain level of pre existing trust or presumed camera holding competence.
So, at this point, you can either question your own judgement in being able to tell who can and who cannot be trusted to hold a camera and perhaps spin into a pit of despair as one can never really tell if it was just an accident, some underlying resentment towards you or the camera or a simple case of one beer too many OR you can appeal to a higher power and ask 'why me?' Or, more specifically, 'why MY camera?'
These are the moments of life's challenges that, truly, make the difference between wasting your time reading my posts and enjoying wasting your time reading my posts.
All I can say is good luck with that.
Oh yeah, buy a new camera. China needs the money.