I have a DSC P50 with the same symptons as this subject. I would be very interested it what the problem is. I believe its a lens/focus adjustment at startup. I am a tech and would like to know if its some thing I could fix. Also if a service manual is aailable for this camera in PDF format. Many thanks.

I have a sony dsc-s600. I dropped it onto concrete from three feet or so. Next time I turned it on it made a clicking noise as the lens came out, took a long time to start up and then flashed the E:61:20 code but otherwise worked fine. I tried hitting it etc. with no luck. I then took out every screw I could see and pried it open, breaking of a little tab inside on the lens side of the body in the procces. I put in the batteries with it open, turned it on and the lens came out with no noise and no error code. Snapped it back together, screwed it shut and it seems to work fine now. I have abused this camera for four years now (by no means was this the first time it was dropped hard) and it keeps on tickin, though not literally anymore.

I have a sony cybershot DSC-S40, and I made several mistakes leading to this problem. First mistake was lending it to someone who dropped it, then lending it to him AGAIN, and he dropped it again. The second mistake was taking it with me to the beach and not protecting it from the sand, and then keeping it in my duffle bag for months, which had sand all over it. It gradually opened more and more laboriously until it finally stopped working. Then I opened it up, cleaned as much sand as I could see out of the inside and the lens gears, and it worked great, although it gave the E:61:20 error. Then it stopped working again, so I figured I had damaged the circuitry the first time I took it apart. I did, however, decide to take the time to open it again, where I noticed the shutter seemed jammed. So I opened up the shudder mechanism and spun the gears around a bit, then closed it (leaving behind some sand I'll clean out another time), so now it works, but it still gives me the error. But hey, small price to pay to get my camera back!

I have a DSC P50 with the same symptons as this subject. I would be very interested it what the problem is. I believe its a lens/focus adjustment at startup. I am a tech and would like to know if its some thing I could fix. Also if a service manual is aailable for this camera in PDF format. Many thanks.

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