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Question posted by sschmeer on January 10th, 2012

Video Camera Problem

My Canon HG20 video camera zooms all the way in once I turn it on. If I remove/replace the battery it retrats and then in about 10 seconds it does it again. The camera is useless at full zoom.  Any Idea??

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