Outdoor shots are blue

1. Sand or foreign object in the lens cover.2. bad motor or gears.
Try cleaning with canned air while powering the camera up/down...

Lets see, what windows are you useing?

my question is basically asking where I can order a part. Its hardly someting I would imagine needing a team of elite experts to handle. No, I don't think I will pay for a premium membership to Fixya. thanks for the offer

To shoot with the self timer: have the camera in shooting mode - press teh down arrow on the back of the camera until the symbol shows that looks like a clock - this turns self timer on.

After it is set to ON - fully depress the shutter button - this will start the self timer process you have 12 seconds if you want to be in the shot -

This is a one shot deal. If you wish tio take another photo using self timer you have to set it up again.

You might need Camedia Master Pro. Check out the info from Olympus on it.

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_xd.asp

Here is the link to the Olympus website where you can check for xD card compatibility for your camera.

unfortunately the camera was not designed for that when manufactured

aiya, sameish thing happened to me. i have the olympus FE230.. and i actually dropped it on the wood floor, so whenever i turn on the camera light is red, and the lcd is white.
i can still take pictures though...

Carefully check your manual to make sure you are doing all that should be done. If still in trouble take it back to vendor.

Hi. Thanks for your question, it helped me solve the same problem on my 720 SW. I don't know what initialised the problem but I had the same result - when I turned the power on I only had the option to format the memory card or turn the camera off. The solution was to take the memory card out and download the pictures using a card reader connected to my laptop. When I re-inserted the card and turned the camera on it worked normally. To make sure that everything was again OK I formatted the memory card to make sure it was properly re-set. Good luck and thanks. Rob