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DSC H5 - shutter button problem

My cam dont work with half button for focus. I need de manual repair for disassembly and fix it.

 

Could you help-me?

Posted by avatar on Oct 19, 2007

    • By avatarbartkinbote Mar 10, 2009

    • half-pressed autofocus won't work.

    • By avatarMABasMabster Mar 03, 2009

    • Focus-fix does not work by pressing shutter button halfway. Camera have run about 5300 shots so far.

    • By avatarzteknologies Feb 09, 2009

    • pretty neat trick, hats off to you, i had my shutter button break as well see below

      My thumbtack seems to work, though any type of "pre focus" is out the window, and if you latch the tape down to tight it will hold the shutter open, not a good thing for the drive motors.

      otherwise very inventive



      ***************

      Hi Everyone,
      Just wanted to add my name to
      the growing list of people who have lost their shutter buttons. Mine
      was lost on a ski trip last night (but unlike normal consumers, I work
      for the associated press and mine was lost while on assignment) we
      NEVER take larger cameras on teh mountains and i would love to bill
      sony for this as it cost me lots of good photos. One thing was i
      thought i had broken it but i couldnt for the life of me figure out
      how, i am rough with my gear but on this night had done nothing out of
      the ordinary.
      I am guessing sony (like all other companys) is
      letting the japs or ostrich lovers make the parts nowadays. This would
      explain the crappy performance of the zoom in video mode, lousy focus
      in and out during hd videos (our camera has an hd converter custom
      built in with a wifi that reaches up to a mile so images can be
      offloaded once taken immediately) and now the button. Dont even get me
      started on the lousy battery life.
      Well i am off to try the thumbtack option, i am not giving sony (or its foreign incompetent slave workers) any more of my money.
      I am not saying not to buy sony btw, just beware what you are getting, obviously someone screwed up on the design.
      Good camera otherwise though, nice clear pictures overall!
      Jason
      NCR Media
      AP Photographer





    • By avatarerika_nuss Nov 11, 2008

    • My shutter button fell off, I ordered the new shutter button for $31, it came in, and I was able to remove the rest of the old one....now i can't get the new one on.......!!

    • By avatarjimmyjam06 Oct 26, 2008

    • My shutter botton fell out, the new one has arrived but how do I remove the rest of the old shutter assimbly?

    • By avatarGuest Oct 15, 2008

    • same problem --- press the shutter button half-way down and no focusing (this was after we had the same problem "repaired" last summer)

    • By avatarberkanozturk Jun 30, 2008

    • same problem unfortunately
      Anyone knows how to fix it?


    • By avatarfma_cl Jun 02, 2008

    • pre-focus don't work, and now, the shutter button fell off. i turn 5 or 10° the silver part and remove the lid and joined the piece that had broken (i fix it), but the pre-focus still not working

    • By avatarGuest May 22, 2008

    • same issue,

Solutions (4)

Best Solution

Here is a $2 fix to this problem.
It just takes some electrical tape, a small piece of manila paper or similar and one thumbtack.

After the silver shutter button fell off, I tried a thumbtack and found that it did a good job of doing the pre-focus and capturing of the image. I then took a piece of black electrical tape about 3 inches long and in the middle, pasted on a small circle of construction paper or manila folder type of paper slightly bigger than the head of the thumbtack. This piece of cardboard will lie on top of the thumbtack head. This prevents the electrical tape from sticking directly to the thumbtack so that the thumbtack is free to move up and down (and trapped in position) without being stuck to the tape. I then put the electrical tape in position so that the thumbtack is held with its pin stuck into the shutter button.

Works well and doesn't look that bad either since the black tape blends into the body and the thumbtack is not visible.

Hi there, I've sony Cyberr Shot DSC-H5. The shutter fell off last month. So I found this web useful :
http://www.camerahacker.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Digital%20Camera/Sony/DSC-H2_Shutter_release_button

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Then I try take the old broken shutter off and order new one from sony cost me $31.00 with shipping fee Instead of $180.00 to send to Sony. The part came in today and I fixed it. It work fine now.

Note : when you try turn the part have to be careful the 2 legs are so tiny !

this is not Suggest a Solution for this Problem. but my h5 shutter button accually FLYING-off from body case.. on vacation

  • By Author imageGuest Jun 27, 2008

I have used a piece of pencil rubber cut in the size of the hole after removal of the shutter button. The squared form makes it fixed to the camera for some time, but I have to change the rubber. In the rubber I pin a piece for paper clip, but the thumbtack sounds better. I has been working for 1½ year now. The button broke in the camera bag - fine when placing the camera and of when pulling it out.lcakim@gmail.com

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