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Canon PowerShot S500 Teardown

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Removing this small screw circled in red will free the small metal plate on this side of the lens module assembly.

In the 2nd photo the small plate is being removed.

You can now see the main large brass gear which drives the lens unit in and out, and also a slider/cam that zooms the optical viewfinder (yellow square)

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