Samsung Digimax s500 Camera takes awful, blurry pictures!!!!

The S500 works with SD cards, 2GB or smaller. It will not work with higher-capacity SDHC cards.

you need to replace the lcd, has a look here.

[source]Question about Samsung Digimax S500 Digital Camera[/source]
Try replacing batteries (high Ah photographic type).
The lens motor & electronics may be draining power if Ah capacity has dropped too low. At night, it could be that your flash is trying to fire (another drain), or shutter timer / mirror staying open longer.

The lens stays in the outmost position although batteries are fully charged. This has happend twice. The first time I had a valid waranty so the problem was fixed for free. Now it has happend again and there seems to be no way to get the lens back into the camera. Also the display is totally black.
I guess I have taken about 500 pictures since the last repair. Not very much - even a cheap camera should last for longer than that.
Never Samsung again!!!

an idea passed over my head just now
several ideas
was the camera droped
was the camera exposed to heat
was the camera exposed to static electricity
was the camera exposed to water or liquids
ect.
if these or other things happened to camera
the shutter inside camera has malfunctioned due to the reasons

first try to do the ff:
-try to power reset
(take off battery for 1-2 mins & put battery back)
-BP tried using fresh batteries
(try to replace battereis for your camera)

If you ahd tried those options, i suppose you camera needs service now, contact samsung back, do the ff:
-go to samsungcamerausa.com
-click on customer service
on the upper right portion of website
-provide product code and e-mail address
-provide all other necessary information
in registration process
-take note of service center address
-read all shipping reminders
-send camera to service center address provided

samsung service center will do the repair for you camera or if the problem is unrepairable, they will send you replacement camera, if its still udner warranty. tried this option and now my camera is working.

try to master reset the camera...

press menu

press right to reach setup

browse down to reset
highlight yes

menu to save changes
turn off then turn on and take a picture...

I have the same problem. =(

I had this problem, I don't know how it happened. I have the samsung digimax s500, this is what I did. 1 press menu 2 go to 'setup' 3 scroll down to 'format' 4 click right and scroll down to 'yes' that fixed mine, good luck

Its something to do with heat. This happened to me and a mate of mine fixed it. Its just the settings on the camera. I don't know how to do it, sorry, but i know it can be done