Thanks!

I picked up an S2 from a thrift store this weekend because I enjoy old cameras. It had the shutter problem which led me right to your videos and I was able to fix it thanks to your detailed instructions!

Perfect explained video. Serveral years my S2 was laying brocken in a box after a 1 meter fall. Now I got my S2 back in oberation. Thanks a lot and please proceed with providing such helpful videos!

This is by far, the best tutorial to repair the stuck shutter of the early Powershot S series. I took me like 5 hours (including fixing the failing shutter blades which is almost like a torture lol) but finally the S2 IS came to life and now it's working great. Thanks!

Absolutely stellar instructional video (shutter cleaning video too). Precise instruction. It took me nearly 5 hours... but well worth the learning experience and the camera now works. Bravo.

Thanks to you, my Canon came back to life after many years. Thank you very much! 😁

Thank you for this videos, I successfully repaired my camera ;)

Sir, this video must have helped a lot of people and I am one of them. Thanks a lot and keep going. Would never forget this experience and once again thanks a lot.

hey! im from argentina, i bought my s2 is for 10 bucks, the seller told me that the camera was working properly but the camera don´t turn on, so i check the battery contacts, i cleaned the residues, then, camera started perfectly, but i had this problem of BSOD, then i found your video, took me 4 hours but it worth every second, thank you very much.

Man, you are really a good guy. Listened to you for some hours now, enjoyed your calm and very accurate guidance. And at the end (a short disappointment, when the camera didn't turn on) - after cleaning some corrosion on the battery contacts - a working camera... Thank you a lot. People like you are the reason youtube gets a better place :-)

Greatest tutorial i've ever seen. Hats off to you, sir! And God bless!

Sir, thank you for this video. I wached it closely and did everything exactly the same and it worked. So Im very glad that there is people like you. Thank you so much.

Let me add my thanks to the mountain of praise for posting this painstaking video. In repairing my S2 IS, I coined a few technical terms for the internal components. The first one is the HELL-PIN, which is a small brass, conical-ended pin. the second is the HELL-BALL which is the small ball-bearing that inevitably went flying after the umpteenth attempt to get the lens assembly back in place. And if I have a top tip for people re-seating the cleaned shutter blades, set the aperture manually so that the seating pins are as close together as possible.

Thank you for such a thorough video. It took me 4 and 1/2 hours following each step including your other video on disassembling the lens and cleaning the shutters. In the end camera is working great.

Thanks so much. Can't believe that 2 hours later my s2 is works. Being all thumbs didn't help on my side, but directions were spot on!

YES !!! Mon appareil est revenu à la vie. Il était mort depuis très longtemps. Ça été long mais ça en vaut la peine. Très bonne vidéo, super bien fait, bravooooooo !!!

Merci beaucoup mon Canon PowerShot S2 IS est réparé grace à ces deux tuto.

Thank you so much for this detailed vedio, I was able to fix my camera canon S2 that I had since 2005, but it has been off for almost two years, and now its working just fine as it was before, again thanks to you for this great job

Great video included every detail you could need and i got my camera working again 👍

i got to the part where you pull the lens and i screwed up and launched the shaft bearing so i bagged it and binned it thanks for the fun video i was going to throw the camera away anyhoo its just neat to see the confirmation of the oil on the shutter though it was completely coated no wonder thej basic tricks wouln't work

lock pinning tweezer make it super easy to pull those little connectors out.

Excellent video! Helped me fix my sister's Caon S2 IS, thank you!

Camera and I survived! Thank you so much!!

Man, 1st of all thank you for the video. I had this camera and i wasn't using it for years, cause it had memory card error issue that was not caused by memory card. So i opened up thanks to your video, however i had to do memory card slot repair on my own, and it worked, there was a piece of paper stuck between some things in there, very small piece. I have 5 screws left, i forgot to screw something inside, even though i followed the steps. Hopefully that wont cause any issues. Thanks again :)

Wow! That is exactly where it was...in the main outer barrel! Thank you so very much. Would you recommend my removing it from that barrel prior to reinserting it or should I just move forward with it the way it is? I need to go back to your other video to see how you proceed with the part. You might laugh but when you offered to look for the “missing” piece, I told my husband, “I was going to offer to send him ALL the pieces from this camera for spares he could send to someone else”! I’ll confess to being frustrated but truly once I managed to repair both the iris AND the aperture I thought maybe I really could do this! :-). It is too dark to work on it now, I’ll start again tomorrow, but again, thank you!

Thanks so much for this video. I tried it out after gathering courage for it now and it worked. I did got a small metal plate out which I couldn’t figure out where to place but I closed it anyways and it worked 🙏🙏. Only issue the clicking sound of shutter is not coming so I guess the part was related ..

Thank you so much

Thanks !

Thank you nice video!

Wow - my S2 had been in the loft for 5 years - after losing the ball twice, I finally got it all back together with no parts left over! And now it works again! Thanks for such a detailed and patient pair of videos.

my S2IS took overexposed pictures in bright light conditions. needed cleaning of the shutter. thanks a lot for your video.

Grreeeat tutorial video

Привет из России)) Спасибо за видео! Получилось починить S2IS с такой же проблемой.

verrrrrryyyyyyyy helpful video thank you so much

Good evening. I think I replied yesterday in an other video. I finished the reassembly, put the batteries and the screen said: replace the batteries. So this problem began 13 years ago. I switched between camera and play button and it worked for a short time 😃, I made 2 pictures, but after that the same message on the screen, replace your batteries (they are new).

Thank you so very much successful repair.

Fascinating video. I have a Canon S1 IS camera and now and then I search KZfaq for any related content for it. I have had it for 15 years now. The only issue I ever had was after 2 years of ownership, the CCD failed. I thought that was the end of the road for the unit. Put it on the shelf and a year later did a Google search for it and found out there was a bad batch of image sensors installed in many of the S1's. I sent Canon support an image from the camera that was all orange looking with many lines running through it. They contacted me and told me despite being out of warranty they would repair the camera for free. I sent it to them and within 10 days I had it back and it worked perfectly. It is my understanding at that time they intended to fix any of the S1's with that issue, even if if was years down the road if the CCD's were still available. I'm curious though if any of the later generation PowerShots had this CCD issue? If so, the same recourse I had may still be available. I love my S1 and am glad I was able to get it fixed. Thank you for this video because it shows what they did to mine, to take it apart. Simply amazing technology.

Hello We followed your video very carefully and were going well . We cleaned the blades but when it came to putting the lens back together The two optical parts did not slot together into the tracks. We seem unable to go forward or backward - unable to turn the outer lens. Any advice would be gratefully received!

Hi, your video is spot-on. I did the whole operation twice, pausing the video to keep up,. Unfortunately it did not sort my S2IS's illness out. I could not see any contamination on the blades. Even though the E18 persisted I was impressed with myself as it did exactly as it did before the op. The camera started malfunctioning only sometinmes with the lens stuck in various positions, and it would come right by itself, then one day it just gave me E18. You did mention that the untrasonic motors also has a tendency to go bad, could theat be the problem with my camera? IShould I attempt dismantling the motor? Thank you for your tutorials, the best ever.;)

Thank you so much

Lastima que estes tan lejos,de no ser así te la mandaría para reparar 🙂

im about to do this to my camera that my sister gifted to me the other day. Im a little scared of doing this , ngl.. wish me luck.

My S1 IS lens is stucked outwrads What should I do Whenever I put new batteries camera drains all the power

i think its better to buy new camera-- great Vedeo

It worked! there was obvious contamination when I opened the camera, just like you showed in your video! The camera now works well inside, but everything is overexposed outside... Did I do something wrong?

Fantastic instructional video and thanks for putting the time into helping others. I followed the video with my son as a project and managed to fix the black screen problem, however, upon reassembly, we found that the flash doesn't work. We took the back off again and found that the flash connector was installed, even pulled it off and reseated it. Any hints?

GF just got one of these, doesn't have the shutter issue, but the screen shuts off when pressed against the camera, guessing it's a worn ribbon cable? No idea if anything can be done though...

Great, very detailed video. unfortunately, after cleaning the shutter blades (which were so dirty, that they stuck to the cover!), and putting everything back together, I am now getting an E18 lens error. Any idea, where I went wrong?

I’d like to ask where the motor of the camera is so I can fix it myself, and save money. Whenever I power on my Canon Powershot S2 IS the screen only shows “E18”.

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@ the 18.04 mark that light blue piece came off, is the camera toast? Also, do you repair the camera if I am having difficulties?

I have an S2 and s1 power shot cameras they both come up with the same error no images. I used a new compact flash for the S2 I used a new SD card for s1 and new batteries all the functions work and I still get no images please help

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canon powershot S3 Thanks for quick respond . I would like to give you more information so you could understand better my problem . On LCD am getting this (E24 )not the words (Lens error )where in the camera lense would fully comes out and just goes in . is and I Another interesting thing I observed is when the LCD is on and I am in the image display mode (That is browsing the existing images) then there is no problem if the LCD panel is open or closed the camera just seem to respond normally, only when I change to the shooting mode the camera lense would come out and go in with the camera shutting down. what is problem with my camera? I used New Batteries for camera but the proplem still remains same. Thanks Peter

Hi, my S2 IS Canon Powershot camera lens is stuck extended, any idea how I am able to fix it?

I have same problem with black screen in my camera. I disasemble and reasemble but my camera can't turn on after that? any advice?

Thanks for very nice video . And I have same camera error E 24 .the reply works fine but cannot shot picture would not stay on .Can you tell me what is the problem? Thanks .

Hi :) I want to buy a Pro1 with the black screen problem. Do you think it's a good idea? Thanks.

Hello sir. My S2 shows a battery low message even with completely new ones. Do you know how to fix that problem? I would like to introduce my child into photography and I cannot think a better camera to do that other than my old powershot. Thanks in advance for any guidance solving this issue. Best regards.

I have the S1 version and it is different from the other versions. It does not have any screw in the hdmi port area for instance. I can't get to take the back off even though I've taken out all the screws I could find. I'd appreciate if anyone has a suggestions.

I fixed my black screen of death issue, but my video recording mic audio just sounds like static noise. I had a second S2 camera with same BSOD issue, and tried swapping out the microphone, but the same issue persists. Any idea what's going on? Did I wire something backwards/incorrectly?

Greetings! 29:40 err... What WOULD happen if I WOULD lose the spring?... :D EDIT: After moving some furniture from its place and ducking with a flash light I finally found it!!!

How import is that little spring that goes on the back side of the lens assembly and the chassis frame? mine decided to shoot across my room

Hey. Thanks for great instruction, sadly though I followed all steps one by one after all the cam still stuck in dark visor. By the way down & left arrow of joystick don't function. What do you think, did I do something wrong or whatever?

I have reassembled both the iris and shutter assembly and am now attempting to put everything back together. I have gotten to the part where I am to slide the lens assembly back into the barrel......I don’t have the lens assembly part that looks like yours. Is it possible that MY lens assembly came a part when I was tearing down the camera??? I DO have the spring and ball but not the “arm that slides into the telephoto lens. Help!! I have come sooooooo far and don’t want to just chuck everything. Thanks

how do you remove the sticker of the lens to clean of dirt or fungus

how come you never shower how to clean it

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My camara is done no working u.u

my canon S3IS suddenly dead What to do

Welp a lot of crying to lead to my grandmas camera DESTROYED!!! Thanks alot youtube.

camera that old probably not worth the headache

Well i took my camera apart it was 15 years old i made a mass with it GARBAGE BUYING A NEW ONE

Mmmm, repairing a camera with worth of max 10 euro in 2018? Why?

Thanks!

Thanks!