Problem with the GH1 and the kit-lens

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AKED

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Hi,

I have my GH1 since September 2009 and since yesterday I got a severe problem.

We were in the zoo and I took pictures.
I had 4 lenses with me ad tried different ones.
When i put my kit-lens back on, in about 70% of the cases, when I used the zoom, I got the message"check, if the lens is attached correct" and then nothing worked any more.
Well, the lens was correct on th camera and the "Taking pictures without lens" was off. The message disappeared sometaimes, ut stayed often of quite a while.

I feel, that there is something like a 1/10 of a millimeter "play" (I do not know the correct English word), when the kit lens is attached. So when I use the zoom I feel, how the lens moves a slight bit and then the message comes.

I could not find a working action, that helped to make this message disappear. Sometimes it disappeared by itself, sometimes when I tried to move the lens.

This is very disturbing and not acceptable with a camera that young. I reckon, it will not get better over the years.


Do you know this problem and does anybody have a solution for it?
Except sending it to Panasonic Service and wait for 6 weeks)


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Dieter
 
AKED said:
Hi,

I have my GH1 since September 2009 and since yesterday I got a severe problem.

We were in the zoo and I took pictures.
I had 4 lenses with me ad tried different ones.
When i put my kit-lens back on, in about 70% of the cases, when I used the zoom, I got the message"check, if the lens is attached correct" and then nothing worked any more.
Well, the lens was correct on th camera and the "Taking pictures without lens" was off. The message disappeared sometaimes, ut stayed often of quite a while.

I feel, that there is something like a 1/10 of a millimeter "play" (I do not know the correct English word), when the kit lens is attached. So when I use the zoom I feel, how the lens moves a slight bit and then the message comes.

I could not find a working action, that helped to make this message disappear. Sometimes it disappeared by itself, sometimes when I tried to move the lens.

This is very disturbing and not acceptable with a camera that young. I reckon, it will not get better over the years.


Do you know this problem and does anybody have a solution for it?
Except sending it to Panasonic Service and wait for 6 weeks)


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Dieter
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I think that the play is normal, everyone seems to have that. As for the message, it was happnening to me as well but it went away. I think it has something to do with the contacts being a little dirty. Maybe check them out to see if they are clean?
 
I have the same slight play in my kit lens... although annoying - its never given me the "check lens" message.

I would also ask panasonic service and see what they recommend...
 
I've got the play-- and randomly get the message. Not enough to slow down shooting though.
I try a number of "refresh" protocols:

-wiggle the lens (slightly)- to assure a good fit.
-hit the PLAY button to go into review mode, then back to stdby.
-Turn the camera off-wait 10-15 sec. then on again.
-remove/re-attach lens
-zoom lens all the way and back
-pull out Mario Bros. cartridge- blow on it like a harmonica
-refresh pixels
-clean sensor

somewhere along this line it kicks back into normal function for me
 
i just leave "shoot w/o lens" on all the time...you'll still get all functions of kit lens...try it and see if you get an error...

i only ever had that message while taking exposures of more than 20 seconds for star-shooting, and not all the time, but never with normal use. hopefully it won't become a bigger problem for you.
 
I had the same problem after I started using the 20mm f/1.7. It would also try to autofocus when ever I tried to manually focus. Hopefully I'm not jinxing it but the problem went away without me doing anything. So give it a few days and maybe it will go away.
 
Hi,

thank you for all your tips.
What finally seemed to work was to clean the contacts with a piece of newspaper.
Sounds funny but it worked!
 
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