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Posted on Sep 23, 2011

HVR-A1 Optical zoom is not working, but digital zoom works ok-

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The most likely cause for this is a zoom or focus lens out of place or impaired in some way. This will require disassembling the camera to remove the lens assembly and then disassembling the lens block to repair. This can be done fairly inexpensively but it's not really a user serviceable problem and should be repaired by a qualified service technician.


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