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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / Australian Photography / December 2004Any Olympus C700 Users Here?
Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? Mine's doing this -- the batteries and contacts are already checked out as fine. Repeatedly, Fred Not in your particular model and make of camera, we have seen cameras having cold solder connections, and or failed components internally doing your description. The most common cause of this type of failure is the camera being dropped, or water getting in to it, and causing damage.  SignatureJerry G. ===== Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? Mine's doing this -- the batteries and contacts are already checked out as fine. Repeatedly, Fred Ah so! Thanks, will check it out. At what points do you see some of the failures? > Not in your particular model and make of camera, we have seen cameras having > cold solder connections, and or failed components internally doing your [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Fred The most you can do, if you are in to unassembling your camera, is to use a meter and trace out the continuity of the connections and traces from the battery contacts, through to the devices on the circuit board that they enter. At the manufacture service site, they change the complete boards in these as a module if the fix is not a simple solder connection. Then they do the calibration of the new board. Considering the cost of one of these camera's, I would prefer to give it out to the Olympus service rep and have an estimate done. They may not want to charge too much to service it. If you take it apart and do any damage, or need any service information or pieces, they will not sell them to you. You would not have the proper set-up at home to do the diagnostics, and calibration of the camera, if the need arises. SignatureJerry G. ===== Ah so! Thanks, will check it out. At what points do you see some of the failures? > Not in your particular model and make of camera, we have seen cameras having > cold solder connections, and or failed components internally doing your > description. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Fred Thanks again, Jerry. Cost to repair at Olympus is a flat $155 regardless of what it wrong. Earlier I called a dozen camera shops here in the LA area and none of them work on this camera themselves - all just send Olympus' in to the factory. I'm pretty careful at taking apart these kinds of things, so will check out the solder joints and post what I find out. Thanks again! Fred > The most you can do, if you are in to unassembling your camera, is to use a > meter and trace out the continuity of the connections and traces from the [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > > > Fred > Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing good > batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? Mine's [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Fred You may want to check out the batteries. Some batteries are constructed in such a way that they don't make good contact in some equipment. The insulated shoulder around the outside may extend so far that the center contact does not make contact. SignatureJoseph Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math > > Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing good > > batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? Mine's [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > insulated shoulder around the outside may extend so far that the center > contact does not make contact. I wish that you hadn't suggested that ! Fred will have a sense of humour failure AGAIN Peter >>> Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing >>> good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I wish that you hadn't suggested that ! Fred will have a sense of > humour failure AGAIN I wish someone would *steal* Fred's camera, so that we never heard of it again. jak > Peter >>>> Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing >>>> good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >> Peter They should steal it, replace the batteries, and then return it...... > >>>> Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing > >>>> good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > They should steal it, replace the batteries, and then return it...... My real regret is that having bought a used C700 and used it for two years without a problem, I then went and sold it to buy up to a C750 which is even better. If I had known I would have sent it to Fred as the amount of time saved reading his 'BATTERY' posts would have been worth as much as I got for it. Peter "wire 54" <wire54@nospam_btopenworld.com> wrote in message > My real regret is that having bought a used C700 and used it for two years > without a problem, I then went and sold it to buy up to a C750 > which is even better. If I had known I would have sent it to Fred as the > amount of time saved reading his 'BATTERY' posts would have > been worth as much as I got for it. I also had 2 years of excellent service from it. Probably all that excessive used led to the power circuitry problem. This is a common problem with this design and has already been confirmed by dozens of others. There are several website devoted to it. PS - The batteries are fine! :O) I can't believe you guys. You actually READ every posting on the newsgroup? LOL!!! > >>> Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing > >>> good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > Peter >I can't believe you guys. You actually READ every posting on the newsgroup? >LOL!!! Why not, if one has the time and a thirst for knowledge? Tom >> >>> Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing >> >>> good batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> >> > Peter "Tom MacIntyre" <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >I can't believe you guys. You actually READ every posting on the newsgroup? > >LOL!!! > > Why not, if one has the time and a thirst for knowledge? > > Tom Agreed. Mine opinion also. But these clowns are not interested in learning something new - only in harassing those of us who are. My point was that they need to look for that pesky old DELETE key and use it. > > > Has anyone had any trouble with the C700 suddenly not recognizing good > > > batteries? And, if so, did you learn what the problem was? Mine's [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Peter WHAT TH...???!! :O) |
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