Olympus Camedia - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support - Page 8

Actually this is on page 80 of your manual. Called Macro shooting, you can come as close as 2.8". When the mode dial is on most settings, you have to press the little button above the display with the flower several times. on the display a flower should be visible. To come close to a subject, put the zoom in wide angle. Actually, if you read it from the manual it will be very clear and saves me about half an hour typing. The menial is still available online for free.

Katie, there is some application open that drains the battery. So you can still hold the vendor responsible, get an opinion from a camera shop. You don't want to wait too long.

First: thank you, for suggesting battery terminals. It was failing to power on intermittently for some time; the problem became more-and-more frequent until it would not come on at all. Cleaning the terminals saved my camera! Second: for others, let me suggest plain old pencil erasers as a good way to clean electrical contacts (something I learned from HO model railroads as a kid). A vigorous rub with the brand new eraser on the end of a pencil cleaned the battery contacts inside the camera.

Perhaps the software that is needed for the camera to work with the PC is corrupted. You could try to deinstall the camera software and reinstall it.

Try this: http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva
The instruction is on the site otherwise try google:
"recover lost pictures" or something like "get back lost pictures"
With that you would be able to recover your pictures, after this you can format the card in the right way, try

Hp USB Disk Storage Format Tool (search google)
Good luck!

No, the firmware of the C-725 is not user-updatable.

You don't need any special software.The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or, despite what I said first, you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

it would appear that the camera is in playback mode. turn the dial to camera. another possibility is that the card is bad

reset the camera back to factory default. but it would appear that the camera needs repair