E300 shutter issue

Bought my E-300 last spring, have shot 5,000+ images with NO issues. Have three batteries, which are rotated regularly.

Yesterday (Thanksgiving Day in the States) I took the camera out of its bag, went to take a photo of dinner preparations, and found upon depressing the shutter button (1.) a disconcerting lag of a few seconds I'd never experienced, followed by (2.) a sequence of perhaps 10 rapid-fire exposures (yet no images were recorded on the card).

Changed the battery, yet the SLR repeated the same behavior. Cannot capture a single image. Also switched from one lens to another, with no change (nor improvement). So, I suspect I'll be boxing the camera up and sending it to the Olympus repair center in California (unless one of you savvy folks have a clever solution).

Thanks!

Omi

Have you checked the contacts inside the battery compartment where the battery grip would make contact? Maybe worth sticking an air blower or brush up in there.

The camera wasn't cold or being stored in damp conditions? Maybe let it warm up in a dry place at room temp for a few hours...

Just a couple of ideas to try... not promissing anything.

Was when they, or their batteries, got moisture on them. Drying them out VERY good, removing the batteries and leaving them to air dry for a day or two, worked wonders.
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Theresa Kelly
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Oly E-300, FL-36, 14-45, 40-150, 50-200

It probably could be like the others have suggested to be a connector issue with the battery, holder etc.

Or, what I thought when it once happend to my E-300, it was due to the CF card being written full. I had a CF card with directory structure from a Canon Digital Ixus S230 on an older low-capaity CF card while this problem occured, if I remember corectly.

An annoying glitch, that I don't have an answer too. I don't remember which firmware revision I was using.

Here is a link to the other reported case, but that was for the E-1:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=13868872

Or could it be some EMI interference problems ?

I had a car where the pointers stopped working when my analogue mobile phone rang and was on a special location on the cars dashboard, but that was more then 10 years ago.