Rhonda Coble Posted on Dec 16, 2006

Dropped my camera on a hard surface and the lens is stuck open.

I had just turned off the camera. As it was shutting down I dropped it. Now the lens will not shut. The camera still turns on, the screensaver picture still loads but after a few minutes I receive notification of lens error. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Thanks Rhonda

Rhonda Coble Apr 28, 2007

LOL.. yeah, thats all I can do unless I want to pay $150 for the company to fix (probably a 2 minute, $2 solution) but oh well... A new camera is all I can do. At least I had the camera 5 months and several hundreds of photos before I broke it.

Good luck to the rest of you. I still have the camera and if anyone wants to tell me how I can fix this thing myself, I'm still listening. It's a good camera.

Rhonda

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Buy a new one, that's what I did after I dropped my brand new camera.

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