It wont close

Okay, the same happened to my camera. The lens stayed open and showed system error on a blue screen when I tried to close it. I checked if this had happened to others and found that it had, and took note of their comments.

I tried first of all pushing the lens back in whilst trying to close the door: seems to work for some but not for me.

I then tried pulling the lens out even further in case it hadn't come out all the way in the first place: didn't work either.

I tried slapping it on the palm of my hand three times quite hard and trying again to close the lens door, then repeating this a few times: seems to work for some, but again not for me.

Finally what did work: I rocked the lens back and forth gently a few times which suddenly brought it back to life - it sprang open a fraction, made the 'taadaa' noise to show it was ready and was delightfully back to normal.

Seems the lens had been stuck somehow and needed a bit of gentle persuasion to return to its normal positon. It may be the combination of all the above that finally did the trick, or just the end one. I will never know. I do know that I love this little gizmo and that it has given me five years of brilliant service. There are cheaper and better spec' camers around now, but I wouldn't trade it for any of them, so its really lovely to have it back up and running.

Hope this works for you and anyone else it may happen to.
Les