Posted on Oct 12, 2008

Camera immediate shuts off after turning it on

After putting brand new out of the package batteries in and turning my camera on...the green light goes on....the lens goes out and then immediate shuts off and the lens retracts back in. What can I do to fix it? My camera isn't even a year old!

Thanks for any help you can give!

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Anonymous Oct 28, 2008

mine does the same but now i have done something and the lense wont go back in,
please help!
Peachesmom Nov 05, 2008

I have tried various types of batteries and I cannot get it to turn back on.
krissnean Nov 19, 2008

My camera was doing the same thing… shutting off when you turned it on and it would stay on for a few minutes, if you warmed it up. I had just replaced the batteries and thought it couldn’t be them, then I realized I had replaced the batteries with a different brand of battery than before. I replaced the new batteries with Energizer batteries or the Panasonic batteries and it works just fine now. Hope this helps...
Anonymous Dec 19, 2008

I agree. I just solved the problem today, but i had energizer and switched to duracel and now its fine, my only problem is that it now says my memory card is wrte protected..and no its not the switch..help!?

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Anonymous

Try using lithium or nimh rechargeable batteries. I had the same problem and switched out the batteries and put in eveready nimh batteries and it works fine now. Guess the old cheap ones weren't doing the job. And they were brand new batteries.

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