In any event, Let me know how you make out. Doing so will ruin your camera that is not even broken and void whatever warranty you may have or your chances of getting them to replace it with better equipment. Others may try to tell you all crazy ways to disassemble the lens assembly and cleaning contacts. This is the absolute best answer anyone will be able to give you here. And I will get the 6 bucks for telling you how to force them to help you. If you ride the company the way I instructed you you will get satisfactory results and in most cases better equipment out of them. As there is no way to actually fix your problem yourself I hope you find this information I gave you valuable enough to rate it fixya for me. I hope you found this information helpful. The last thing they want is people to realize what they are doing. Apparently these mega companies do not want their secrets out so they will pay you off to settle you issue if you ride them with honest complaints about their bad business practices. When I threatened to post all my communications with them and my horror story HP Quality assurance sent me a 1400$ HP Pavillion fully loaded just to shut me up. I had to send it in for warranty work 3 times in 6 months. I did that with a Compaq Presario laptop I paid 700$ for.

Maybe if you make enough of a fuss and threaten to post this horror story to tech forums all over the internet they will send you a better camera. They figure you paid a lot for Your camera and you will pay a lot to fix it. I see this more and more each day in all types of products. This is just another example of bad business practice. Ask them why so many people are having this problem and they can not fix it. If I were you I would send Panasonic a letter complaining about this issue and tell them what you know about their scheme. Everyone that sent it in was robbed and the problem came back within a month and ignoring it does no damage to the camera or the video it produces. After reading every ones exact same problem I can feel comfortable recommending that you simply follow their course and ignore the warning message. All of the users that have just ignored the warning are still working fine, They just say it's annoying.One sent it to a shop to see if they could just disable the warning, You can not. It sounds to me like this problem is engineered into the camera to milk money from you. Twenty or more people said the best thing to do is just live with it as it does not interfere with the cameras performance in any way. Then they will tell you they have to change the whole lens assembly $550. Panasonic will charge you 330$ to clean the lens assembly and update the firmware and the problem will come back in 2 days. I checked several forums for you and the general suggestion is just live with it.

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