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can you help with details of how the small surface switches work (sony RX100)

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cwinte Regular Member • Posts: 389
can you help with details of how the small surface switches work (sony RX100)

Mk 1 versions of RX100 seem prone to develop random switching on due to the "play" button presumably "shorting". This means that just sitting on a table, untouched the camera will just switch on and maybe switch between replay and shoot multiple times.

Several dozens of people have reported this issue (it seems fixed in Mk 2 & 3).

See here my thread in Sony Cyber-shot forum for background.

One person reported "removing the metal shim behind the switch" to disable it making any contact but having opened the camera body I cannot see a safe way to access the switch which is held between a metal plate beside the lcd screen and the outer rear cover; the metal plate is secured by what look like plastic welds so I do not want to go there!

So here is my macro shot of the slot around the little 3mm button:

view 1:1 for detail of material

Can YOU give any helpful clues or ideas?

Thanks!

Colin

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