My digital Sony camera fell down Lens got stuck

the lens on my Hp R717 Camera got stuck so when I turned it on, it would shut off automatically. The shutters were stuck too so I extended the lens using a flat screwdriver and then shut it, and kept doing that until the lens finally shut.

when it ives the error message to restart the camera ,press the on/off button simultaneously rotating the lens a little harder .The lens comes out a bit .Try doing this till comes out fully.

Hello, Im "Darntoothysam" and heres how to fix it for FREE, but ONLY if your lens is stuck at an angle.

Heres a trick for you, you might be able to fix it yourself. With the lens pointing perpendicular to the ground, place the edge of the lens on the edge of a table or counter. NOT the flat round front section of the lens, the curved edge or side only. Position the lens on the table and press on it so that you are pushing the lens back towards the center to straighten it out. You may need to press slightly hard, don't worry, its already damaged so youre not going to hurt it if you don't push with all your might! Keep pressing on the lens, if it doesn't pop back in push slightly harder. This will either work, or it wont, like I said, just don't put all your weight on it. If it pops back in place, it will probably work just fine again!

I have a problem like that, my sony digital camara is no more showing images when on to take pictures. before I will see the image through the screan then shoot but I don't know now what happen when I turn on is on, but shows the screen black and white and if I shoot the view is green please help I want to know what may be the problem

Oh I would like to add....most shops aren't going to spend all day trying to fix a jammed lens because they are usually not worth their time...they would rather Sell you a new lens block assembly with to me Total losses the camera. Not worth the expense unless your camera has sentimental value.

The following blog outlines some other repair options for a lens error:

http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/fixing-lens-error-on-digital-camera.html

Hey i have the cam Sony DSCW5 and had the same problem and it said "Turn off and then on the cam" or something of that sort. After reading some of the tips on web what i did was just i switched on the cam and blown air with my mouth with full pressure into the gaps between the lenses. I then gave a gentle whack to my camera on all the sides. I later switched off and then on my camera. It worked as usual and i can now take my pics. Then i just cleaned the gaps b/w the lens again with a vacuum cleaner in its "Low pressure" mode. Its works awesome.

What i warn is don't hit the camera too hard and don't blow the air on to the lens !!!

What I do is take the camera apart, take the lens apart, clean the gear drive / transmission etc. (1 grain of sand can cause your lens to hang up and sometimes strip the internal gears on the Zoom motor etc.) Use a sharpie to mark the lens so you can put it back together in the proper slots. Once you remove the gear assembly you can move the lens in and out freely with your hand. Once you can do that, put the gear motor back on and Presto! Put everything back together and it should work. If you are not mechanically inclined don't bother with it....just buy a busted screen camera off ebay and swap the lenses......Golden inf0!

There is a guy on e-bay that does fast cheap work on sony digital cameras, his name is "Darntoothysam" search google or search his user ID on e-bay and contact him. I would say you have a damaged lens mechanism that needs fixed or replaced. Hes cheap you should ask what the charge would be to repair it.

Its common so dont sweat it. They are made from very brittle plastic and so tiny not much will cause them to break. Its almost unavoidable being so small with a zoom mechanism.

The lens zoom mechanism is very delicate on most of these cameras, and its probably busted.
What error exactly are you getting?

me Pammi, I was depressed looking at my 8 months old SONY DSC650 was struck with its lense popped out and was not shutting off despite of changing the battery....The solution given by toothy was much helpful and my cam is back to normal, thanks to Almighty and to toothy...thanks again for the Best Solution

toothy

As you turn it on give it a sharp tap against a table so the lens continues and emerges from the body

I had the same problem. The first time I could bring it back in under warranty and they've replaced the entire lens. The second time I didn't feel like being charged to replace it again nor to buy a new camera and figured I couldn't ruin it much more.

The only way, I can see, is to dismantle the camera lens and put it back together. For me this solved the issue, with just one screwdriver.

Disadvantage is that the lense is really the last component you can take out after some unscrewing and unclicking;

If it's just the covering panel on the front, twist a bit on the outer cylinder of the lense. It should come off, pop off the covering on the front (don't break anything) and puzzle the covers back in place. (you should see two metal pieces inside which are connected to a spring, the plasic cover with the longest base-pin should be between them. The other one, with a sharp point can be used to pull the spring apart to place the other piece.)

If it's really stuck, this fixed it for me (screwing and unscrewing not mentioned things fit well so you wont need to "force" anything. Oh and be careful with the long battery-looking metallic thing. It will shock you if you touch the contacts!):
*Start with the back-panel, then you'll be able to remove the front-panel
*Take off the sides
*Get the LCD out (you can pull out the copper wires from the board and put it aside)
* Detach the CMOS sensor from the lense
* Take the base with the lense out of the casing (takes some fiddling, don't force it)
* Unscrew the motor part (it's a small "box" on the side of the lense.) and try to rub against the long black gear attached to the lense. If the lense jumps out, it might be the motors' gears which are stuck.

At this stage, I could see the insides of the lense schift around which was what falling had done for me it seemed.

* open the back of the lense, fix the backpanel back on the two springs (sitting on little prongs)

After putting it all back together, my camera was fixed.

I just went a few steps further and it fixed the lens assembly completely! I took the cam apart and took out the lens assembly, and removed all screws from the back of the assembly, then I could push the lens back together easily, without gear problems... then I put her back together and success!!! sony DSC-W55.

my lens is stuck and i tryed doin what toothy aid and it wont work. it just turns on and says lens error and doesnt let me do anything. i have a nikon 5.0

Hi, I had the same problem.. Shutter wouldn`t open and lens wouldn`t come out... ran a thin piece of paper around the lens, there was a bit of dirt there.. The paper came out a little black. This solved my problem.

Hope this helps.