Olympus fe 110

My mum got herself this camera as a cheap point-and-click. It came with
a 16 MB card, but I'm wondering is it possible to access the internal
memory with the card inserted? At 1600 x 1200 for example the capacity
of the card is 24 pictures; at the same resolution the capacity of the
internal memory is 42 pictures, which I make 66 pictures in total.
(Perfectly acceptable for my mum). However, I have taken 24 pictures
with the memory card in place, obviously now the camera is reported in
the memory card is full, so I would have assumed it would then use
internal memory, but it doesn't seem to; so either I am missing
something really obvious, or the only way to access the internal memory
is then to physically remove the memory card? Pretty stupid in my
opinion as every time you open the flap to take the memory card out the
batteries fall out, not an ideal situation when you're out taking
pictures.

(Bear in mind that time I have only seen this camera for a few hours
and I only have the basic manual, not the advanced manual on CD which
mum didn't give me.)

On 5 Jun 2006 04:09:04 -0700 in rec.photo.digital,
wrote:

My mum got herself this camera as a cheap point-and-click. It came with
a 16 MB card, but I'm wondering is it possible to access the internal
memory with the card inserted?

it's not possible to access the internal memory at all. it's
reserved for the camera's use. all pictures are saved to the
removable card. best to get her another card, larger than the
one that came with the camera.

Dennis P. Harris wrote:
it's not possible to access the internal memory at all. it's
reserved for the camera's use. all pictures are saved to the
removable card. best to get her another card, larger than the
one that came with the camera.

That isn't correct. Many Olympus cameras (the FE-110 is one of them)
have internal memory so you can take pictures without having a memory
card installed. I think they are doing this so they don't have to
supply the miniscule memory card that cameras used to come with. Some
versions of the FE-110 did ship with a 16MByte card (smaller than the
internal memory), but the models that replaced this generation (such as
the FE-130 and FE-140) do not come with memory cards.

You can't use both at once - when you insert a memory card, the
internal memory is disabled. There is a backup function built into the
camera that allows you to transfer the images in internal memory to the
card.

One thing I do agree with Dennis on is to get a bigger memory card -
the bigger the better! You can get a high speed 1GByte xD card for
around $40.

Dennis P. Harris wrote:
it's not possible to access the internal memory at all. it's
reserved for the camera's use. all pictures are saved to the
removable card. best to get her another card, larger than the
one that came with the camera.


That isn't correct. Many Olympus cameras (the FE-110 is one of them)
have internal memory so you can take pictures without having a memory
card installed. I think they are doing this so they don't have to
supply the miniscule memory card that cameras used to come with. Some
versions of the FE-110 did ship with a 16MByte card (smaller than the
internal memory), but the models that replaced this generation (such as

the FE-130 and FE-140) do not come with memory cards.

You can't use both at once - when you insert a memory card, the
internal memory is disabled. There is a backup function built into the

camera that allows you to transfer the images in internal memory to the

card.

One thing I do agree with Dennis on is to get a bigger memory card -
the bigger the better! You can get a high speed 1GByte xD card for
around $40.