Anonymous Posted on Dec 19, 2008

Dimage Z3 won't focus

When turning the camera off the lense would not retract. I gave it a "gentle' push and now the focus will not work. every picture is blurred. I need to get inside it to see if I can fix it.

Anonymous Dec 19, 2008

It is fixed now courtesy of a previous solution which simply was a very hard "thump" on the carpet. Thanks guys.
wbete Feb 17, 2009

As described lens would not retract gentle push cured that Now will not focus and is as if it were stuck in macro mode i.e will focus with telephoto adjuster.

have not yet tried thumping on the carpet!

WB

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