Zooming button won't move i think spilt apple juice on it..

Yes i just was to use my Canon 710 IS camera. turned it on to zoom in to my coral in my fish tank.. But when i ZOOMED in it wasn't working great.. looked at it more and noticed that it was sticky substance on it..

Thought it was the batteries leaking (NO IT WASN"T Thank gosh) then i figured it out i had apple juice in my bag that (the bottle was empty) a drop might of gotten in to the zoom and CLCIKER (if that what the button is called when you take the picture)and now it moves like molasses..

Is there a way that i can clean it out.. as it still moves but Very very very veryyyyyy sloooooowly...

Not happy with this right now.. called a few places and they like min $200 to get it looked at... I'm like i can buy a new camera for the price..

Can anyone please help me out.. i feel like this right now

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You spilled apple juice on your camera and broke it.
I don't have any advice, but I have to chuckle just a bit

I once perched my sd400 on a glass of wine, set the self-timer and watched as the camera slid off the rim and dove into the glass. The flash fired and the camera took a semi-submerged photo of red wine. Several months later I got it back from Canon, after it was re$u$citated.

Good luck.

prcrstn8 wrote in post #5167999
I once perched my sd400 on a glass of wine, set the self-timer and watched as the camera slid off the rim and dove into the glass. The flash fired and the camera took a semi-submerged photo of red wine. Several months later I got it back from Canon, after it was re$u$citated.

Good luck.

Now theres a good reason to finish all your wine! or....

Don't drink and photograph!

I've had good luck with Windex. Drip a couple of drops of Windex in the space around the stuck button and then immediately turn the camera over so the button is facing down and press/turn/jiggle the button repeatedly with a paper towel to remove the windex. Try this a few times in a row to flush out the sticky stuff.
...Terry

prcrstn8 wrote in post #5167999
I once perched my sd400 on a glass of wine, set the self-timer and watched as the camera slid off the rim and dove into the glass. The flash fired and the camera took a semi-submerged photo of red wine. Several months later I got it back from Canon, after it was re$u$citated.

Good luck.

do you have that picture? im curious to see what it looked like.

hah, yea - could be interesting!

Nope, deleted it, but if you take your contact lenses out and stick your head upside-down in a big bowl of red wine you'll get a pretty good idea what it looked like. Heh.

I'd avoid any more substance (in you or in your camera but just use plain (distilled would be even better) water in a clean spray bottle. Cover the camera leaving only the clicker and zoom button exposed. Hold the camera upside down and spray water up onto those controls & let it drip off. Do that several times. When you can't taste any sugar in what drips out (eeeew!), you're done.

isopropyl alcohol is dielectric, and evaporates faster than water.

From a professional camera store I had service a Kodak of mine- Do NOT use anything but denatured alchohol. Isopropyl will leave residue.
I had a sticky thumb wheel and he used denatured alcohol to free it up explaining to me as he used a Q-tip to apply the alchol on and around the wheel that denatured alcohol is widely used in repair and safe for consumer repairs as it will not harm any parts and will dry traceless to air. I know alcohol by nature will remove moisture so If you have used water in an attempt to free it up now would be an especially good time to get down to home depot or a paint store and pick up some denatured alcohol immediately and swab out the the areas.
I wouldn't use windex either, it is water based.
A good camera store in your area would do this over the counter for you inasmuch they would already have some denatured alcohol about and it is such a simple thing to do.
If it doesn't free up then by all means send it in to canon for repair, probably cost you under 200 but then you get back a fully cleaned camera that has been checked and recalibrated in the repair process.

Old man Don wrote in post #5171957
From a professional camera store I had service a Kodak of mine- Do NOT use anything but denatured alchohol. Isopropyl will leave residue.

did not know that. i stand corrected.

Is there a way that i can take the camera apart.. and clean the zoom mech...

well i fixed. it

took the plung and opend the camera up.. not that hard.. just took off all the screws then used my finger nail to run it on the seam to pop the case open.. once that was done .. there was 2 mroe screws for the zoom button. took them off as it was attached to this spring mech.. took that off and found the little crap that was binding the zooming button.. use some water with ctips and some ispropyl alcohol to clean up up..

It works like new... put it back together and vola saved $80-200 bucks..

Wow. It's never hard to get things apart. Getting them back together again is the trick. Does it work?