Zoom Error (by 2 users)

I had the same problem with my 6800Z in the summer of 2003. It was caused by heat - I'd been using it on what was a record hot day for the UK!! Not a good idea.

I removed the battery (hit and hope, no logic to doing that), I let the camera cool off, put the battery back and the lens retracted. I've not had that problem arise again. Perhaps I was lucky.

BUT ... it did leave a problem with the CCD and I think a good number of pixel sensors were damaged because on things like bright blue sky, there's a grey smudge, a bit like a fingerprint maybe, at the top and to the right of each picture. I can use the zoom and it's markedly less but doesn't go no matter what I do to the camera. I just clone it out if there's anything I want to keep.

Mostly though these days, I use it only for macro work and the mark isn't easily seen.