Your camera will still be under the manufacturer's one year worldwide warranty, so contact Sony in your country to find out what the local arrangements are.
Usually it's either the flash tube or flash charging circuitry/capacitor, and they're the sort of things which can just fail suddenly. In that case it's broken and is not a DIY fix. SOURCE: MY BUILT-IN FLASH NO LONGER WORKS WITH MY SONY ALPHA 300 DSLR
How one can straighten these pins, or if the whole socket would need toīe replaced.but at least you can determine the cause of the CF Look carefully to see that all the pins are straight up. More of the tiny metal contact pins in the CF socket in the camera. Someone has pushed a CF card in the wrong way. Is, before you give up on the camera as broken, try a number of Work are marked SanDisk Ultra II 1.0Gb and SanDisk 128 Mb. Works is brand PQI and is marked Hi-Speed 60 2Gb. Then my daughter said, "the CF card in my room worksįine in the camera" - and lo and behold - it does. Sony's flat rate, and that of PrecisionCamera is $228 to fixĬF card failure. Is broken, I checked online camera repair sites and also called Sonyĭirectly. I was getting the same error message as reported above: "Unable to use card" then "Format?" then that format fails. Hi! I just had the same problem with my Sony A100, when I tried two different CF cards. SOURCE: Sony Alpha 100 gives error message when attempting to take pic.