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E 18. How to keep old cameras (S2) alive?

Started Jan 18, 2016 | Questions thread
OP eilivk Senior Member • Posts: 2,580
Re: E 18. How to keep old cameras (S2) alive?

I2K4 wrote:

The first clue about the little button battery is failure to show or save images with the proper date / time, that fixed a problem about 9 years out on an S5IS, and I replaced it on an SX10IS at the same time.

The one other repair tip I'd share is freeing up stuck or malfunctioning buttons, control wheel or moving parts with a no-residue electrical contact cleaner. Harmless to plastics or metal and evaporates very quickly, removing gunk. It worked for me on the SX10, and helped a couple of readers here with old models. (One made the initial mistake of spraying the camera with the little nozzle tube - much safer to apply the solvent onto a piece of cloth and work it carefully into crevices, to avoid any exposure of sensor or other sensitive elements.)

Agree with your method. Best to be careful. Helped a friend with Leica D-Lux, it worked. ... for an hour, then crashed, and worked now and then.  Not into opening cameras, you got to be interested. But of course, the faulty screens on both S3 AND SX1 are irritating...

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