What newsgroup to discuss a digital camera malfunction?
 

Forgive if this is the wrong group to discuss camera malfunction, in
which case please stop here, and refer me to the right group.
Otherwise, please help if you can...

Four year old Olympus Model D460-Z. Only 1.3 megapixel, but adequate
for what I have been doing--selling on e-Bay an making the odd 4X6
print. I saw no need to replace it with more modern technology.
Still don't except that it has failed.

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.

Any suggestions what to do? I cannot afford a replacement just now,
and I need a digital almost daily in my work.

If someone has a used one of these, or a similar model for sale or
loan, please respond

..

Murray in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Murray wrote:


Four year old Olympus Model D460-Z. Only 1.3 megapixel, but adequate
for what I have been doing--selling on e-Bay an making the odd 4X6
print. I saw no need to replace it with more modern technology.
Still don't except that it has failed.

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.


Does it have any sort of Lithium coin battery used for the clock and
such? If so, that camera is old enough that it might have died. That's
the simplest thing to look into.

Phil

Murray wrote:


Four year old Olympus Model D460-Z. Only 1.3 megapixel, but adequate
for what I have been doing--selling on e-Bay an making the odd 4X6
print. I saw no need to replace it with more modern technology.
Still don't except that it has failed.

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.


Does it have any sort of Lithium coin battery used for the clock and
such? If so, that camera is old enough that it might have died. That's
the simplest thing to look into.

Phil

Murray wrote:


Four year old Olympus Model D460-Z. Only 1.3 megapixel, but adequate
for what I have been doing--selling on e-Bay an making the odd 4X6
print. I saw no need to replace it with more modern technology.
Still don't except that it has failed.

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.


Does it have any sort of Lithium coin battery used for the clock and
such? If so, that camera is old enough that it might have died. That's
the simplest thing to look into.

Phil

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.

Any suggestions what to do? I cannot afford a replacement just now,
and I need a digital almost daily in my work.

Remove the batteries and let it sit for at least 24 hours. This should cause
the camera to completely re-set itself. Once in a while the older Olympus
cameras would freeze up like that; happened a couple of times to my Olympus
450Z (the predecessor to your 460).

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.

Any suggestions what to do? I cannot afford a replacement just now,
and I need a digital almost daily in my work.

Remove the batteries and let it sit for at least 24 hours. This should cause
the camera to completely re-set itself. Once in a while the older Olympus
cameras would freeze up like that; happened a couple of times to my Olympus
450Z (the predecessor to your 460).

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

When I turn it on, it opens as it should, but shows "Card Full". Card
is not full, as confirmed by inserting any other one of my four empty
cards.
If turned on with no card in, it shows "No Card", as it should.

I noticed that all of the menu screens that I get to by navigating
through them, show the last settings they were left at before the
failure, except that the date setting has reset to 0000/1/1, and the
time shows 0:00.

Any suggestions what to do? I cannot afford a replacement just now,
and I need a digital almost daily in my work.

Remove the batteries and let it sit for at least 24 hours. This should cause
the camera to completely re-set itself. Once in a while the older Olympus
cameras would freeze up like that; happened a couple of times to my Olympus
450Z (the predecessor to your 460).

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Murray,

Try:

1. Re-formatting a card and/or.....

2. Using the camera's re-set button(s,) if it has a reset sequence.

Hope this helps....let us know.

Mark

Murray,

Try:

1. Re-formatting a card and/or.....

2. Using the camera's re-set button(s,) if it has a reset sequence.

Hope this helps....let us know.

Mark