20 Most Recent Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-P32 Digital Camera - Page 3 Questions & Answers

Red eye can be turned on or off in the menu. Does the word auto show in the LCD?

Try squeezing the camera very hard or slam the camera in your hand as hard as you can, this usually fixes it.

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re-formatt the memory stick.

go to the sony website they have free downloads for it.

reformatt the stick through the camera menu.

Go to the sony website they have software downloads.

I think you have a wrong setting, go into the menu and go through it and it says USB connect or something to do with PAL/NTSB i don't have one in my hand.

This is usually due to a stuck shutter cover. First off though try hitting the camera reset button to see if this solves it. If not carefully open camera by removing screws, disconnect ribbons, unhook shutter cover motor wire (2 wire connector) pull board out and away from front housing, force cover open or see if gears or jammed, camera will work if cover is left open but you will have to live without it. Once forced open leave motor dissconnected, or if you found gears were jammed reconnect it. Be very careful of flash capacitor circuit and contacts, they may shock you if you touch them. Hope you get it working if you still have the camera.

Is the lens cover opening?

If not, (this is what was wrong with mine), get a set of cheap eyeglass screwdrivers from the "dollar store". Then commence disassembling the camera, use the smallest phillips screwdriver you can find to remove all the screws, then disconnect the tiny/red/black wire clip from the circuit board (I used a small flat-head screwdriver for this.

After you get the circuit board out of the way you can see the actual mechanisms that control that part of the camera. Remove the small lens cover motor (with red/black wire attached to it) by taking out its phillips screw. There are two sensors for the cover on a small circuit. Open/close the lens cover manually & you'll see where these sensors verify whether or not the cover is open. If the camera senses the cover isn't open, then it will give you this error & never turn on in photo or video mode. I moved the "geared lens" over to the open position & reassembled the camera & it has worked fine since then. My motor was locked up, so I left it plugged in to the circuit board, I assume that you could leave it unplugged & it would not know the difference (sensor wise).

Hope this helps someone else get their camera going again!

If you have a card reader you should be able to format it the same as you would a hard drive. right click on the card drive letter and select format....

Robert

DSC-P73 is an old model cybershot and does not support 1GB memory stick.
Please use maximum 512MB memory stick.

Posting this everywhere I see this problem. Sorry for the repitition, but it saved me and my camera!

I just contaced Sony support for the exact same problem. If you're able to power the camera on in VIEW mode, open the rubber tab to expose the USB and DC In connections, directly above that there is a small RESET button. Get a paperclip and push and hold the button until the camera resets itself. This fixed my problems, hope it will fix yours!

I just contaced Sony support for the exact same problem. If you're able to power the camera on in VIEW mode, open the rubber tab to expose the USB and DC In connections, directly above that there is a small RESET button. Get a paperclip and push and hold the button until the camera resets itself. This fixed my problems, hope it will fix yours!

Switch on your your camera with the memory card in it, goto menu and format it. The problem will be solved.

Download User Manual (pdf) of Sony DSC-P32 Cybershot from Sony Support.

i had that same problem. check your image size, the camera cant zoom if the image size is set to 3.1M or 2.8M(3:2)

how to change image size:
turn on camera and leave it in camera mode (picture taking mode)
press the delete/image button
change image size until camera zooms again
VGA gives the biggest zoom range

i hope this helps
it worked on my camera

It not works
Not with cyber-shot

just reset/ initialize the camera so, it will go to default settings.

i got the same problem, if i had a sony office/sales shop around i'll go give them to take a look,