Posted by dh on 10/27/06 13:51

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:59:28 GMT, "Bill Farnsworth" <bill.farnsworth@verizon.net> wrote:

>
>> "Bill Farnsworth" wrote ...
>>> The first place to start is loose or dirty connections.
>>
>"Richard Crowley" wrote
>> True, but on those small camcorders those are likely to
>> be those microscopic ribbon connectors that plug
>> directly into the equally tiny "edge-connectors". Just
>> disassembling and re-assembling the thing is something
>> most of us wouldn't attempt without a service manual.
>
>Yep.
>More the reason to suspect loose or dirty connections. :-)
>Could be issues with the swivel point contacts,

Where would they be? I don't want to dig into it too
deep, but maybe it wouldn't hurt to take the viewer
itself apart because it doesn't work anyway. Since two
out of two of the cameras I've got developed the same
problem without being abused or damaged in any way,
I was hoping this would be a common problem that
people would be very familiar with.

>unless those little
>cameras have small mercury switches for the LCD viewfinder
>orientation.
>
>
>Bill

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