SX20 Camera won't focus

[dave.harris2]

Hi,

I suspect the camera is failing on my SX20. It will not auto focus anymore. It stay blurry all the time. I performed a factory reset but that didn't help. I also changed the focus mode back and forth hoping the toggle would wake up the auto focus. I could find no way to manually focus the camera so I'm not sure what I'm missing on that. That also did nothing. I next tried "xconfiguration cameras preset triggerautofocus on" but that did nothing. A screenshot of the xstatus camera command is attached. At this point I need to know if the camera is bad or if the whole codec is bad. Or how to manually focus. I also reseated the camera cable, that did nothing.

Thanks,

Dave

[Patrick Sparkman]

Best and easiest way to see what is faulty is plug the camera into a known working SX20, at the same time taking the working camera and plug it into the SX20 that has the questionable camera.  If the issue follows the camera, your camera is faulty, if the issue stays at the codec, it's the codec.