Unuseable Camera (by 4 users)
Hello, this is a sudden emergency.
A sibling borrowed my camera and it came back un-usable. She said the battery went out, but I think she just said that not to get in trouble.
What is happening is this: Firstly, the camera is off and the lens remains un-retracted. When turned on the screen is black and nothing happens untill I press the tiny button below the speaker, the icon is a paper with a symbol close to( <~> ) that to the right, the screen illuminates to black with E18 in the lower left hand corner then totaly powers off. I'm charging the battery as of now, but I'm totally ticked off. As you may know this is a $270 camera and I just don't have the money to take it anywhere or buy a new one if this one fails to work. Please tell me this is fixable?
Thank you so much!
3 Other Users Have The Same Problem
Comment by Guest, posted on Jan 18, 2008
same problem...I have two different casios..both cameras the lens locked up in the out position and not retract...batteries are good etc. Any way, with nothing much to loose at this point, I went ahead base on some comments here and gently banged the camera on my desk with the intent of trying to dislodge sand/dirt that might be jamming the lens. Sure enough both cameras seem to be working now. Must admit and ending up smacking both pretty hard...so I don't know if I damaged anyhing else. But now I know the cause..crap must get in around the lens and then lock up the in/out mechanism. So this is the cause of the this problem. Smack the baby a few times..
Comment by alexatkinuk, posted on Nov 27, 2007
Actually I just bought one today which did the same thing. I put some batteries in it, the camera powered on then suddenly the batteries gave out leaving the lens out. When I replaced the batteries, it just turns on green then flashes red 10 times and then nothing.
This is not an amusing thing to happen as it cant be dust, it hasnt been dropped, the batteries just ran out after an hour or so of use and now it wont work at all. What a rubbish design that it doesnt even try to bring the lens back in.
Comment by Dottie_Lou, posted on Nov 20, 2007
My camera ran out of batteries. I put new ones in, but it will not power on. The lens is in a positions to take pictures, and will not retract. When I try to turn it on with the power button, all that happens is that two lights flash next to the buttons to take pictures, and to view the pictures. I have tried pressing all the buttons on the camera, but nothing seems to work.
WizIve fixed a few that were jammed by tapping on the lens as i power it on some times a slight tug on the lens mechanism can free it from a jam also.
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