I have taken the camera back to Jessops who sent it to their service dpt. They wrote and told me it would be £137 for the repair so I wrote back and told them I wanted it fixing FOC or a replacement or I would take legal action against them. They have phoned me today to agree with free repair but I want to be sure it won't happen again. I expect it will but I want to make sure they will repair it if it does. Needless to say, there was a part rattling around inside it. I understand it was something to do with the drive mechanism. I bought a Sony digi cam a couple of weeks ago for half the price and its brilliant. SC.