sure enough dropping my SOny camcorder rwice from a distance of 1-2 inches worked!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! Thank you! this works! I was about to buy a new camera! Simple as it can be... the camera works perfectly again!

wooo hooo... i just dropped my camera and its fixed... my son thought i was crazy hahahaha

son la cagada estas soluciones pero dan resultado pero mi cam no tiene zoom optico es una cybershot DSC-P32 me salia el error E:61 asi que lo que hice es enfocar una foto carnet al punto de verla lo mas nitida posible y disparar y se acabo desaparecio el error si persiste un pequeño golpe de frente al tablero de la mesa con la cam prendida y desaparecera el error.. ¡grande internet! suerte

Hi I also had the E:61:00 error in my SONY DSC-P71 I followed the instruction given in the forum. I did put the camera in Movie mode before switching it on and place the camer on the hard surface. Then i turned its power on then after doing several tries that Error is gone. Thanks to the forum, Martin

this is so funny.. :)) i was having same problem (E:61), but thanks you guys!!!! threw the cam and now it works perfectly fine!

Can't believe that this works, but it did thank you all, whod of thought a good whack would actually fix something as complicated as a camera wow...

bang it. not to hard use your hands. i didn't beleive it but trust me it works

Amazing! - it worked! - give it a light bash near the lens and its back to normal again! Thankyou to the person who originally found this out and all the others who tried and tested it! Brilliant! Many thanks

wow, that actually worked. thanks so much. i was banging the lens on my computer table after reading this and was saying "this cant be good for it at all"...then it started working.