Everytime I try to zoom in the picture just gets blurrier and blurrier. I've cleaned the lense. I even tried switching lenses. It was fine for the other lense...I tried switching all settings. I didn't drop it or anything..HELP!

first off, you need special tools to get at the inner elements of a zoom lens - i've been working on lenses for 20 years, and i still don't have every tool needed sometimes :-)

second, makinon lenses are not really worth anything, even if they are in perfect condition - my advice is to buy a better zoom used that is in perfect condition already, since you would have spent that money in tools to try and clean this one, and everyone screws up the first lens they ever try to take apart...

some good lens brand names are sigma, tamron, kiron or any with the same camera name as your camera (canon, nikon, etc)

stick with japan made optics - can't go wrong usually.

good luck...

have you tried removing the battery at all?

Your batteries are too low.
When you switch on the camera, the lense go in. Then lense comes out fully. Then, if the batteries are low, lense goes in and camera turns off.
But if the batteries are too low, camera turns off before the lense retracts or even before the lense comes out fully.

your camera's lense is clear? try clean it with suitable cleaner for lense. If still not working, check your user manual for setting

It can occur if the contacts on the lens where they meet the contacts on the camera body need cleaning. Try a cotton swab lightly dampened with rubbing alcohol.

This means that the communication with the Quantarey lens is not the right one.

You can try in cleaning the lens contacts and the camera contacts with a pencil eraser or a white erase (flip down the camera so no particles get inside the mirror box).

If still you are having problems, then that means the Quantarey lens is defective, and either needs to be service to be repaired, or you will need to get another zoom lens.

Best regards,

sitch on when the lense extends take hold of the end and gently twist and pull the lense you may hear it click. be gentle do not force it then switch on and off again this should solve the problem

switch on when the lense extends take the end of it and gently twist and pull the lense you may hear it click be gentle do not force it then switch off and on again and this will solve the problem 98% of the time.

I believe the FZ7 determines that the lense cap is still on when it can't extend the zoom lense because the lense cap is in the way. I would check to see if your zoom lense housing is somehow stuck (could be sand or dirt in it) which is creating enough resistance to make the camera think the lense cap is impeding the zoom lense from extending.

It seems that the lense element which mooves while zooming the camera is stucked. normally this happens when the camera suffers a heavy jery, may be by dropping the camera. Resulting into disalingment of the lense assambly. You will need the help of repair shop to solve the problem.