Guess what folks February 2009 and this solution has worked again. Two light smacks (like swatting a fly) and it was back to normal. Anyone know how to correct the screen color that is "too blue"?

UNbelieveable.. the FONZY method works. thanks a ton heather

Flashbacks of my dad smacking the TV when vertical bars starting rolling. No kidding folks - this method works. I used the finger-and-middle-finger-flicking-the-side-of-the-lens-barrel method. Perhaps some dirst in the lens mechanism?

Thats amazing! My is about 3 years old and I have never had any problems with until today. I was so not happy but I got home and googled this problem and I be darn 2 smacks on the top of the LENs assembly unit they were hard enough to make the flash assembly open up. But I turned the camera on after and my zoom is working again. I even took some photos of my tabby cat. Thanks for the information.

I have a Sony DSC-S30 that was flashing the E:61:10 error. Thanks so much for the help, 2 light smacks worked for mine!!! Appreciate the advise!

YUP - The two good smacks worked for me and my E61:00 error code - incredible!

Yes folks...it sounds absolutely rediculous...but it worked for me too. Turn the camera off and give it two smacks and WA-LA the error message was gone. I started off with two pretty light smacks on the back of the camera and worked my way up to what I would consider two medium hits with a power down inbetween each double hit. It only took three attempts...but I was being pretty gentle in the beggining. If you look in the Ops. Manual it says you have to contact a Sony Dealer/Authorized Service Facility....it is a camera malfunction that you cannot reverse.....THEY ARE LIARS....he he he...The Fonz ROCKS!!!