Just encountered this error... lens barrel cannot retract. Anyone seen this error before?
Once I switched mode from IA to mycolor and the zoom freezed and refuse to budge. I have to switch back to IA zoomed and then switch to mycolor mode to snap my pics.
Back home I investigated the "problem" and I found out that mycolor mode was selected but not "set", pressing the "set" button solved the "problem.
It is strange but if you have powered off before switching modes the problem would not have arised???
Hmm i was in Video mode using the zoom when the camera throws a 'Please switch off and turn back on' message. After i done that, the camera goes into a black screen with "System Error (Zoom)"
Just encountered this error... lens barrel cannot retract. Anyone seen this error before?
I encountered a similar error while using the quick video button with optical zooming, no iZoom enabled. After taking a long video, approx 20mins, with lots of zooming in and out, the camera cannot be powered off. The LCD screen will turn black but with backlight still on and the green SD read LED is on. I manually took out the battery with the lens barrel still protruding, changed to Aperture mode and re-insert the battery to power on. Camera returned to normal
Scary scary stuff leh!
Taking out battery while camera is still switched "on" can potentially short-circuited the sensitive electronics in the camera!!!
It is terrible that panasonic has no forum where we can seek advice once this kind of problems cropped up?:thumbsd:
Will you be calling up panasonic to enquire further about the problem? If so do update us.
Thanks.
Don't waste your time... they say my case was the first in the world and they have not seen this error before... They have no idea why the problem happened.