alijtaylor
Contributor
I have occassionally had a problem with my canon s50. It is in the housing, the retractable slide cover is retracted from the lens and the camera will turn on.. But it will only turn on to replay mode and won't swith to shoot mode. It has happened to me maybe 1/2 dozen time in three years (approx 180 dives) so if I think about it I now check just before I enter the water that it will turn on in shoot mode.
The last time it happened someone I was diving with pointed out the problem and said it was not uncommon with other canons with the rectratible slide. If the slide is not retracted completely although it looks like the lens cover it is open, it has not clicked fully home into the open position, and the camera still thinks it is closed so you can replay shots (just as you can with the slide completely closed) but you cannot shoot. It is just another variation on the old leaving the lens cover on problem but because it looks open and you can't feel that is not because of the housing it had me beat.
I thought I would post the problem and the solution here in case anyone else has suffered.
Alison
The last time it happened someone I was diving with pointed out the problem and said it was not uncommon with other canons with the rectratible slide. If the slide is not retracted completely although it looks like the lens cover it is open, it has not clicked fully home into the open position, and the camera still thinks it is closed so you can replay shots (just as you can with the slide completely closed) but you cannot shoot. It is just another variation on the old leaving the lens cover on problem but because it looks open and you can't feel that is not because of the housing it had me beat.
I thought I would post the problem and the solution here in case anyone else has suffered.
Alison