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I recently got a lot of point and shoot digicams for free but one of them, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX55, is not functioning correctly. It powers on fine but the lens will fully extend and retract 2-3 times and then a message comes on the screen telling you to power the camera off and back on. After looking around the most common issue seems to be some sort of dirt/debri inside the lens. I've fully disassembled the camera and gave all the gears and moving parts a good dusting but the issue persists. There is one very small gear attached to the focus motor that I can't fully access but it seems fairly clean. To anyone with more experience with digicams, can you think of anything else that would cause this behavior? I'm assuming the camera has some sort of sensor to calculate whether or not the motors are working too hard and the camera is at risk, could that sensor (if it exists) be malfunctioning? Seriously any ideas you have would be great. I'm having fun tinkering and not quite ready to give up.
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CRAYON posted:I recently got a lot of point and shoot digicams for free but one of them, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX55, is not functioning correctly. It powers on fine but the lens will fully extend and retract 2-3 times and then a message comes on the screen telling you to power the camera off and back on. Turns out the lens was not fully extending before retracting. It was getting stuck with like 1mm left to go. I ended up just giving the lens a very tiny amount of help once it extended as far as it could on its own, and that was enough to get it working. Taking the thing apart 3 times probably wasn't necessary, but I did remove quite a bit of dust/grime so I'm going comfort myself by saying it was totally completely worth it.
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