Top 20 Samsung S85 Digital Camera Questions & Answers

You don't need any special software in order to use your camera.The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or, despite what I said first, you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.

Press cursor-left (marked with a lightning bolt) to bring up the flash menu, then select the lightning bolt in a circle with a slash through it. Full details are in the "Flash/Left button" section of the manual (beginning on page 26 in my copy). If you need a manual you may download a copy here.

You don't need any special software.The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.

Try the procedures in this tip.

Sounds like the lens cover will have got knocked off the guide rails, not much you can do, try blowing it with some compressed air incase there is any debris/grit stuck in there

If they don't appear on the actual pictures, they are probably dead pixels and there's not much you can do about them.

Go into the menu and find "copy"...it should give you that option.

I quote the solution posted for another expert about this same problem...
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My daughter has a Samsung S850, and returned from a weekend trip last night. She pressed the "Power" button and the blue light next to the button came on, as did the screen. The camera then gave a "buzzy beep" three times and shut-down. She decided the batteries were low and replaced them with ordinary AAA alkaline batteries, nothing special, and got the same result.

This morning I checked the voltage on the new and old batteries with a volt-ohm meter and found the old ones were low but the new ones were good.

I read this site and saw a comment that the camera worked after the lens was worked a little bit.

Upon a close look at the lens, I could see tiny grains of sand around the outside of the glass, so I got a wooden toothpick and gently worked the sand out with plenty of tapping on a solid surface to drop them from the area. I also worked the tip of a clean toothpick under what appears to be a soft rubber sealing ring on the outer surface of the glass.

After all this, when the "Power" button was pushed, the lens moved out and the screen lighted, and all the camera now seems to be working.

I should add that shortly after my daughter bought the camera, she lost some kind of metal or plastic ring from around the lens, and that left the "works" around the lens open to view: I can see two tiny screws the lens that are probably ordinarily covered.

Is the lens supposed to be covered by a curtain when power is off? From what I see, the lens is always uncovered. Maybe that lost ring held something else!
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Its possible that it needs repaired by samsung; You can follow the below link for tech support - http://www.samsung.com/uk/info/contactus.html

Hope this helps; send us you test comments.

The lcd screen is held in place by a metal bracket, which usually has 2 or 3 screws to secure it to the main circuit board. Remove these with a jeweler's screwdriver, and gently lift the lcd and the bracket up out of the holder. The next step is to disconnect the ribbon connector by gently liting the plastic connector bar holder up, releasing the ribbon. There is always one wide connector, and sometimes a narrow one for the backlight. Installation is the reverse. You can install the battery at this point and check to make sure the screen is functioning. There are some videos about this procedure on YouTube, and if you search for "Samsung S85 lcd screen replacement" you may find one specific to your camera, but you can do a more general search for "lcd screen replacement", and find some videos that might help you see the process.
You're almost there...just carefully look for the holding screws on the metal holding bracket.
Here is a link to a procedure for one of the more difficult ribbon connectors, on a Canon Powershot, but the process is similar, and hopefully will give you the information to complete this task. http://cannonlcdrepair.blogspot.com/

Good luck, and hope this helps!

Try the link below it should take you to the download section where you can download
the manual and USB driver. If you need any other type of software such as programs
that came with your camera then you are better off contacting Samsung directly or
looking on Ebay.

The camera should have came with a software CD. Install the software and drivers from the CD and plug your camera into the computer with the supplied cable and the computer will read your camera as a drive. Then you can just drag and drop the pictures from the camera folder to your computer.
Or you can buy a cheap USB card reader that will read either MMC or SD card depending on what you're using. Then you don't need to plug in camera to computer. You would need to remove the memory card and plug it into the USB card reader.

yes, follow this link

Assuming you've tried the obvious test of using new batteries, it's unfortunately likely to be the infamous "lens error". This is such a common problem that someone has written a blog just addressing this one error. You can read it here - it describes it far more completely than I ever could!

Also, check this post.

You have to unprotect it first. It's a bit confusing because the menu item probably only says "Protect..." but it also takes care of unprotecting too. Go into the menu for "Protect..." and navigate to the protected one. Whatever button you press to switch the protected status (it's the SET button on my Canon) you can use it to turn the protection off as well. When you exit the protection mode, you can delete it.

Update! I just tried this on a Samsung S630 - hopefully the process will be similar for you (the camera certainly looks the same). You have to be in playback mode. Press the menu button, and go to Playback. Move to 'Protect' and select that mode. You can navigate through the pictures, and on mine, T(elephoto) locks it, and W(ide) unlocks it. In any case, the on-screen instructions should tell you what key it is.

If this doesn't work for you, don't mark it unhelpful (yet) but say so, and I'll find a user manual for your exact model.

download all the photos/fiiles to your computer, then delete all the photos that are on the camera, you may also be able to pull the sd card out and put that in your computer, it will look like a storage device to your computer and will download photos much faster than from the camera, also you can then delete the photos on that SD card while its in the computer

From your description the lens has a fair amount of deb-ri and has worked it's way in the mechanical section and disrupted the gear linkages and probably seized the motor. This is a situation where the lens must be dismantled and cleaned professionally in order for the camera to work properly.

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as iPhoto on Mac or Windows Photo Gallery or Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

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The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.

Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program.