shutter release not working S100

[sandysorlien]

Hello,

I am suddenly having problems with my S100. It will not take the picture when I press the shutter release. In case I had accidentally changed something, I did a Reset to Defaults. Then it worked, briefly, before returning to not working. It also would not let me change My Colors.  Everything else seems to be working fine.  Any ideas?

[Danluckett]

I just ordered the part, with the part number and phone number angeloweb gave. So far so good. Be careful, there are two cameras called S100. The one made 15 years ago is not ours.

[wallygaw]

I started fitting the part yesterday. The flex and switch assembly are glued to the frame. I used a hair drier to soften it and a knife to lift it off. The flex is destroyed once that is done. I haven't removed the remaining glue from the frame yet, but I think some heat and solvent should remove it. I'm assuming the new flex would need to be heated for re-fitting as well. Fitting the new flex to the large connector looks tricky without doing damage

[angeloweb]

I didn't heat it. What is there is like a thin 2 sided tape. I did not remove it, and it allowed the new FPC to be held in place.

Yes, the old piece is destroyed peeling it from that tape.

[Danluckett]

I welcome hearing your experience with this. The Deoxit fix was only temporary.

[wallygaw]

Thanks a lot angeloweb, I'm going to put it back together tonight hopefully, that tip saved some me some potential trouble 🙂

[wallygaw]

Danluckett, mine was still working, but erratically, so time for the operation 🙂

I really want this camera to work because it is the only pocketable camera I have that has manual control and shoots RAW. I have a  Panasonic Lumix LX3 and an LX7 (soon), but they are just a bit too big for a shirt pocket.

The S range of small Canon Powershots are great little cameras.

[Danluckett]

It's been a great camera apart from this failure. They have held their value on ebay, and there are hardly ever any "not working" ones offered. I had decided if I couldn't fix it I would get an s120.  Good luck.

[wallygaw]

Thanks Dan, I finished putting it together tonight and when I was done, it wouldn't power up. I have probably damaged the shutter flex strip when trying to get it back into the connector. It needed a bit of pressure to get it to seat and that may have killed it.

Either that or the new strip that I got from China was faulty, but I doubt that, it looked identical to the old one. 

I'm going to order another one from Canon this time and try again 😞

[Danluckett]

Did you notice that Angeloweb said:

"My first attempt to power up after reassembly got no power. I hadn't wiggled the FPC connection that slides in the front of the camera far enough in."

[wallygaw]

Danluckett, yeah, I saw that. It's definitely in far enough 😞