Andrew Welham wrote:
Think it's my turn for things to break, any way my Kodak LS443 started
to take blank photos last week. I finally got round to taking it apart,
only to find the little flex cable inside the lens has broken, hence
causing the shutter not to open and close and therefore causing no
photos , any one know where I can get spares, Kodak could not help me.

It is possible to repair flex cables.
The procedure is pretty similar to brain surgery though - you slice
off the outside of the flex cable, to get to one side of the copper,
then solder a flexible wire link across the break.
It may be easier to wire between the ends of the connec.tor.
I did this for one laptop LCD connector.
It's not an easy task.