Top 20 Olympus Camedia C-5050 Zoom Digital Camera Questions & Answers

I'd suggest cardboard and duct tape. The same happened to me. You can also try gluing small pieces of Velcro to fasten closed that way. To the best of my knowledge, that clip can't be replaced.

Is this it? Olympus SP 550 UZ Camera Battery Cover Lid Door Replacement Repair Part... The Olympus website is horrible to use and I could not find the cover there. I hope this helps. Spendy little thing...

There is a button on the camera that you press to disable the top control panel. See page 178 in the manual. http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/C-5050Z_Reference_English.pdf

The latest firmware is v83. (This firmware is only available from Olympus - you'll have to send the camera to Olympus for servicing to get the new firmware. It probably won't be worth the effort however.)

There has never been an update for the firmware of the C5050 zoom. On Olympus they only offer some updates for Mac and Windows, to improve connection (driver) and a RAW plugin.

Many little Philips screws

Have you tried a firmware upgrade for your camera ?

IF the stripes are on the pic and not in the monitor, your CCD is failing. It is made of many horizontal and vertical traces, the Vertical traces usually go and are a thin red line. If the lines are fatter than 1 pixel, then your CCD is exhibiting moisture ingress that is common with this camera and it is not repairable due to parts no longer made unless you want to replace the CCD chip on the daughterboard yourself.

While viewing the picture, press the trashcan button.

Check the Olympus website customer support section and user reviews.

There are fuses inside, small SMD types. Open and bridge all SMD fuses.

I believe the part you are looking for is called a "mode selector" doing a google search will reveal the way you can replace it, not very difficult, with step by step instructions. Good luck!

This is a pretty crude method for fixing it, but you can apply duct tape to the camera in whatever fashion necessary to hold the battery cover to the camera. You must have the contacts on the cover firmly pressed against the batteries or you may get errors such as low battery (if you just inserted a new pair)

First make sure it is not a strange setting the one that mess around with your needs....So..., get into menu ..and first put it in normal shooting mode.,.if it has a manual switch button for modes..,and after that ..from the menu ..look for reset all ...or for factory settings .....is different form one camera to another ..but usually makes the same thing ...gets all settings to the original ...
If after that the camera makes the same thing ...be sure it is not a lens problem ..caused by a physical shock ..or another thing like that ..and only as a last resort ..open it and change the battery ..cause that battery is the equivalent of cmos (bios ) battery on computer s...and holds all settings and stuff ..and indeed if it is gone ..can affect the functionality ..but ..if can be checked without opening ...For example ..set the date and time ..or another setting ...and if you remove your batteries..and put them back ..and the setting are getting from 0 again ...and are not held in memory ...it means that battery from the board is gone ..

hello frank..... Try this. Remove those new batteries and use the eraser end of a common pencil to scrub the battery contacts inside the battery compartment and in the lid of the battery compartment. Then reinsert the new batteries paying close attention to the diagram showing the +'s and the -'s.

That may solve the problem. If it does not, then you will have to take the camera into a camera shop for an internal cleaning.

Joe

Have you looked on the bottom of the camera?