
This camera had been out of order more than a year after a long way drive. It was carried along the way with it's camera bag, no any drop, no any impact. One day morning, it supposed to work for normal shoot, however the lens has problem with no retraction, few more try and replaced the battery, it could resume to works but the auto focus was no long in phase.
Shooting seems fine but the the picture had no longer clear, out of focus all the way, how bad was when shooting is a must. below was the last picture taken by this abnormal SONY camera.
No intention to bring it to SONY repairing service just only because after the warranty, the cost would be high enough to buy another new camera, and then, it puts underneath for nothing but storage.
Last Friday, shooting at west coast of the Taiwan island, near by the MaiLiao, strong wind blew the Ricoh R7 off from the tri-stands, no broken but the lens assembly had a little problem with friction. It makes myself to fix these both, or we will have no working cameras for traveling next week.
How and Why? need to think it about the causes and problems -