Whenever I use a digital camera on a regular basis, it starts to show certain problems before eventually refusing to turn on after a couple of months/weeks.
At first the camera will work fine, then the batteries will start to have shorter and shorter lifespans. It starts out that I can just take the batteries out and then put the same batteries back in and it will work for a little while longer, but after a while it will not turn on for new batteries. I've tried Eveready, Duracell and even Lithium.
This has happened to THREE digital cameras I've owned and a friend lent me their camera to use, believing that what I told them is nonsense. They're camera is broken too (I'm not bothered by that fact I'm buying them a new one, I'm bothered by the fact I broke someone else's camera). I've also used rechargable batteries and they begin to exhibit lower and lower lifespans in the cameras I use. Even lithiums only last a few days even when I don't turn it on. I'm not a camera genious and I'm aware there's alot of problems with digital camera battery lifespans, but if I use a digital camera with duracell batteries it will be dead within a half hour. Any advice anybody can give would be really helpful, because at the moment all I'm going on is that a friend told me I must have a wierd "acidity" level.
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Is your real name Rod Serling? There's no logical explanation for what is happening when you operate a digital camera. Someone needs to monitor you from the very beginning as you use a camera to determine what is going on.
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I think the camera must have been discharging the batteries, since you said you have used a rechargeable batteries, and second do you remove the batteries from the camera whenever it is unused, because leaving it inside the camera when not use can diminish the power contained in the battery. Try to study the camera again by making sure the rechargeable batteries you are using are fully charge and kindly try to be removing the battery from the camera whenever you are not using it and see if it works.
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Look....windows updates changes the registry each time and eventually stops some of our toys from working such as your camera. It happens to all of us eventually. Stop refusing to get a card reader and start enjoying photography again.
If you connect the camera to a computer for download and then pull the USB cord before using the "safely remove hardware" function, the card and sometimes even the camera can get corrupted. Never formatting the card in the camera on a regular basis after downloading can eventually corrupt the card. Turning off the camera before it completes writing to the card will corrupt the pics.
If you continue on this quest, you will be setting your camera up for future problems. This is supposed to be a one-way street...from camera to computer...not the other way around. Sure, it may work occasionally but your camera will become problematic eventually.
Performance wise, the
camera has a couple of niggles. Start up to first shot time is around a
second, and shot to shot (without flash) is good with three shots (the
top three or the last three in a sequence are captured) in around 1.5
seconds unless the camera needs to refocus ort the flash fires. Flash
recharge is around five seconds and disappointingly, the camera locks
up as the flash charges, which is a shame.
But, focusing becomes an issue in low light too, where the camera will
hunt trying to key on the subject or just continually fail to focus.
So, beware in low light. There was another focus niggle on smaller
subjects in macro mode where the camera would simply refuse to focus on
anything in the frame smaller than the central AF area, and no matter
what you do.
Thanks
Whenever you switch on the camera the lense comes out to a certain places, stops and the camera is initialized to take the picture. In some cases when there is a friction in the movement of the lense, it does not comes out fully up to the proper position. so the camera mechanism draws it back and again pushes it out. this happens 3-4 times and if still the lense does not reaches its position it displays "turn the power off and on again" and the problem continues.
no non of sony cameras come with any life pan
ya they are telling something baout life cycle
but i have cybershot with 29000 pic and my friend is having about 20000 so if your cameras is in warrenty period then go to sony service station they will fix it
or if you r out of warranty period then go for repairing your camera probebly changing CCD of your camera will fix this problem
I had a problem that may be related to yours. From time to time, whenever I opened the cover, the lens wouldn't work properly. It would make a grinding noise and then when I took pictures they would all come out out of focus. After much fiddling about, I eventually discovered that if I set ALL RESET to FALSE on the SETUP menu, it returned to normal. Possibly this could fix your problem. Otherwise maybe its a battery problem. My camera sometimes refuses to take pictures when the battery is low.
Could be time for a new camera
But check out Kodak Support first.
It has been said that cameras in a certain price band[any make/model] are to be considered as disposable -like toasters and kettles I guess.
It seems the life of digital cameras are 2-3 years. The camera has lens gear problem. The lens assy fails most on digital cameras with moving lens. The plastic gears in the lens assy. are quite fragile in design and when used regularly, gears tends to wear down and eventually damages the lens movement. Many time a small impact or stress on lens when extended do the same damage. The parts are sold as a lens assy and repair cost may run around $100.
I would think it implies the camera / flash / whatever is still functioning after that many operations (pictures)... of course everything wears out eventually, film, digital cameras and flash too.
In this year I may hit 15,000 pictures with my FZ10... I expect the mechanical (zoom, doors, buttons & switches) will last several years.
My vivitar 283 flash units may hit 2,000 flashes this year.
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