This weekend I was using my still camera, a Sony DSC-P52, near the water. My hands may have been wet while I used the camera, but I dried it off later. It was working fine. Yesterday when I was carrying it, it dropped in its soft case. It was not a long drop and it is a pretty sturdy camera, so I didn't think of checking it right after. When I tried it later, it was acting very strange. I have see posts before about people getting their camcorders wet, so I am wondering if anyone has any advice on getting it working, or if anyone can guess if it was the fall or the water that is making it do this.

I am going to start looking at new cameras, but any help with my sony would be helpful.

On a related topic, do you think these are very good: http://www.hedonics.com/store/prodi...tem=5&mitem=41#

They are expensive at $34.99 for the camera case, but I dont think there is anywhere else in Canada that sells them.

Did more reserch on the problem, I reset the camera and gave it two smacks and it is now working.

Great! I'm glad you didn't lose the camcorder. Sometimes it seems they take a great hit with no effect, but a small bump in just the wrong way can "break" them. Always a sinking-heart experience when you realize you might have just lost the use of several hundred $ of equipment.

Now how much do you charge for those "two smacks"? I am sure quite a few owners with broken camcorders would like to know the details of those... I *think* that if the smacks aren't done just right you end up with a more-broken camcorder.

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Sony HDV camcorder info (FX1, CX7, HC3 HC5, SR1/3/5/10, SR11, SR12, TG1, UX1, Z1) -> http://www.SonyHDVinfo.com

I have only heard of the "two good whacks" method for a Sony digital cameras and Sony Camcorders (Displaying the error E:61:10), and I would guess that smacking other things it might make the problem worse. The two good whacks is described here: http://www.pechorin.com/m/2004/03/0...110-210360.html

A web search also gave me:

http://www.myotaku.com/users/willow/life/

I don't know why but I was suddenly compelled to smack my controler...so I did ^_^ I gave it two good whacks and it suddenlly started woking...I laughed sooo hard ^_^

Another link from a search engine:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=58374

The joke's on me! I was kidding but this is real?!

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Sony HDV camcorder info (FX1, CX7, HC3 HC5, SR1/3/5/10, SR11, SR12, TG1, UX1, Z1) -> http://www.SonyHDVinfo.com