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My camera was purchased at the end of March '01. It has always had the battery compartment separator in it.
George & Penny said:
I think there will be a few more poping up! Mostly older one that
were not used to much and when worked hard SDS will pop up again. I
picked up a USI before x mass , I found it had a stuck pixle that
showed up in all my photos. I returned the camera for another and
that was Jan.14 2002 The one i picked up looked different it the
battery compartment it had a verry thin plastic separator they put
between the batteries.The first one did not have this! Looked like
a wall to keep them apart. I was told that this was part of there
fix for the powere board. Does your cameras have this? It may be
one way to tell the early C2100's from the late models. George
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--Wayne B
 
I think I've only mentioned it once but there's a definate stress point that I feel on that door...it hasn't gotten to the point of causing a malfunction but it's definately not as tight as it once was....I have adjusted my grip accordingly....lol
Jimmie said:
Mike Lewis said:
The one where the camera would just quit working??
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Oly 2100UZ B300, C-180, C-210, TCON-14 & +1+2+4 Closup lens
Epson 750Z & Tiffen 2X with adapters for above lens
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--'Happy Shootin' !!!'UZ'P'Shoot'ERS' http://www.pbase.com/rrawzz http://www.pbase.com/otfgallery/uzpshooterMe & My UZI, Strollin Down The Avenue. Me & My UZI, Focusin On Somethin New. To 'UZe' Or Not To 'UZe'? That 'IS' The Question. Weather It 'IS' Nobler To Suffer Natures Outrageous Slings & Arrows? Or Go With Adobe? That's My Story & I'm Stickin To It. Take It Or Leave It c2100uz/e100rs (in that order)
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Hmmm... I hardly see going from 8 seconds to 0 seconds notice
before the camera shuts down as an improvement.
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For sure is not an improvement , but its a smart move from the side of Olympus to not let the camera works with more Amperes , as this is what it does when the batteries getting low , personly i do not like it ..
Inigo Montoya said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the software simply detecting the voltage level?
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Yes this is what it does ..
Inigo Montoya said:
You could maintain an 8 second warning (or even longer one) by
simply adjusting the voltage threshold at which the warning gets
triggered.
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Well this is the all point , but settings like this can not be made by the user .. This is why i am considering that the firmware is responsible for this changes ..
Inigo Montoya said:
My cell phone gives me two, maybe three "low battery" beeps before
it shuts down. Hardly even enough time to tell someone you're
going to lose your connection. To me that makes the feature
basically useless.
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My cell phone gives me also 3 beeps ,but in total i have 1 minute before it cut off and power down ( Siemens C25)
Inigo Montoya said:
Kiriakos C2100 GR said:
Herb said:
Most figure the failures were due to the powerboard's intolerance to > low voltage, high current. That is what happens as a set of batteries are > going dead. Olympus probably reworked the powerboards, but they say
nothing about the problem, so who knows?

Some say, don't forget that when your C2100 is on battery power and
connected via USB, it will stay on until the batteries die. Why
take chances.
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I think that i know !!!!
My camera had firmware 73 ,that firmware was having 8 seconds low
battery warning time .. The new firmware 77 haves almost 0
seconds warning time in low batteries , it cut off the cameras
power allmost instantly ..
Now, do not tell me , that this is another one cure by software
that minimize the possibility of having one SDS ,even if your
camera does not have a problem with the electronic board .

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--C 2100 UZ, P-400 ,HP 970Cxi . http://www.geocities.com/teranova52/
 
Well i have only Nimh 750 mA , but i got good skors from them for their size ..

I did tests last night , 32 pictures with flash, 16 with out flash ,3 minutes uploading and erasing , and 4 seconds low batteries warning message .

I can guess that with 1600 mA batteries i will have double power , if one set of 1600 mA can hold for 100 pictures 70 with out flash and 30 with flash , i think that i will be totaly happy . As averige user this amounts is more than enough . But even with this skors i am very happy , i was having this 750 mA out of use for many years ,and now that i have start using them ,they deliver more and more juice every day .
Mike Lewis said:
So how does the battey last? It uses 4 AA's right?
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Mike L.

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As the past owner of both the SX-70 and numerous Colt autos, I sincerely hope the Darwin Award candidate you write about no longer has any interest in firearms. I'm hoping the slide-clearence issue convinced him to try a different hobby.
In the East Texas oilfield we have a phrase to discribe his situation:
Excessive Operator Headspace.

Ricky--R. Slaughter'Pay no attention to the Man Behind the Curtain' OZC 54.772256-E2 (Z) http://www.pbase.com/nufsed/galleries
 
R. Slaughter said:
As the past owner of both the SX-70 and numerous Colt autos, I
sincerely hope the Darwin Award candidate you write about no longer
has any interest in firearms. I'm hoping the slide-clearence issue
convinced him to try a different hobby.
In the East Texas oilfield we have a phrase to discribe his situation:
Excessive Operator Headspace.

Ricky
--
R. Slaughter
'Pay no attention to the Man Behind the Curtain' OZ
C 54.772256-E2 (Z)
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Luckily, he no longer is employed by the company I work for but I believe I heard he became a fireman in Houston. Scary thought. ;-)
 
Herb said:
My 18 month old
Oly D-360L just won't power on. Out of warranty and facing a $218
repair for a camera worth less than $150 now, it will remain a
paper weight.
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Did you check the springs inside the battery compartment, when you put the batts in do they all sit at the same height? I had one spring on my D490 get pushed down too far once, just had to pull it back up with a needle nose pliers.

The other thing that happened to my D490 to kill it: On the inside of the smartmedia door there should be a little tab that goes into a hole in the camera shell. If you look into the hole with a flashlight and magnifying glass you should see a little switch. It's a small cube with a small rod sticking out, if the rod is not sticking out of the cube the switch is broken and the camera will not turn on because it thinks the SM door is open.

If it is the switch and you've got a small soldering iron and some small screwdrivers you can take the shell off the camera and perminantly close the switch. Took me about 2 hours to do it on my 490 (it was also out of warranty). After that you just have to be carefull not to take the card out when the camera is on.

Considering the abuse I put my 490 through it has held up pretty well ;-) Most of the lettering on the shell has parts rubbed off, I use packing tape to protect the LCD window and have to replace that every month or so.--Later, MartyC-2IOO, D-49OWe’re riding on the escalator of life, we’re shopping in the human mall.
 
Marty Schultz said:
Herb said:
My 18 month old
Oly D-360L just won't power on. Out of warranty and facing a $218
repair for a camera worth less than $150 now, it will remain a
paper weight.
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Did you check the springs inside the battery compartment, when you
put the batts in do they all sit at the same height? I had one
spring on my D490 get pushed down too far once, just had to pull it
back up with a needle nose pliers.

The other thing that happened to my D490 to kill it: On the inside
of the smartmedia door there should be a little tab that goes into
a hole in the camera shell. If you look into the hole with a
flashlight and magnifying glass you should see a little switch.
It's a small cube with a small rod sticking out, if the rod is not
sticking out of the cube the switch is broken and the camera will
not turn on because it thinks the SM door is open.

If it is the switch and you've got a small soldering iron and some
small screwdrivers you can take the shell off the camera and
perminantly close the switch. Took me about 2 hours to do it on my
490 (it was also out of warranty). After that you just have to be
carefull not to take the card out when the camera is on.

Considering the abuse I put my 490 through it has held up pretty
well ;-) Most of the lettering on the shell has parts rubbed off,
I use packing tape to protect the LCD window and have to replace
that every month or so.
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Later,
Marty
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Thanks so much for the tips, Marty.

I think the battery springs are fine. In fact, they are so strong that it is somewhat difficult to close and lock the door. I had thought about the contacts though. I have been waiting to find someone that has an Olympus compatible A/C adapter to try. This would by-pass the batteries altogether.

Looks like my media door switch might be different on the 360. On the inside of the door, on one side only, is a rectangle that slides into a slot. If it is contacting a switch, it is a different type of switch because there is no rod in it. But this is something for me to think about when I finally venture to the innards of the camera. If it IS a switch, I'll jump it.

I also thought about the switch on the front slider that hides the lens. I figure that if it was broken, I would still be able to turn on the LCD with green button on the back of the camera. So that might be OK.

The only thing I have to go on, is that I let my son borrow the camera and he said it got put away with the slider open, meaning the camera was left on. Now there should have been a time out and auto shut off, but what if the batteries went completely dead during the 5 minute inactivity. (At least I think I had it set to 5). Makes me wonder if the powerboard blew under higher current.

Good news is that I bought a C2100 to replace it. But I feel bad that the D360 is dead. It was a great little simple camera that did a fine job with it's lack of zoom and only 1.3 MP.

--Herb(C-2100uz)
 
Herb said:
Looks like my media door switch might be different on the 360. On
the inside of the door, on one side only, is a rectangle that
slides into a slot. If it is contacting a switch, it is a
different type of switch because there is no rod in it. But this
is something for me to think about when I finally venture to the
innards of the camera. If it IS a switch, I'll jump it.
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That's the way it looks on the 490, a rectangle that slides into a slot. When the switch on my 490 broke I couldn't see the rod anymore, it stayed stuck all the way in. The bottom of the rod is like a T, the side parts of the T had broken off so even though the rod was all the way in it was no longer pushing the little spring that closes the switch.--Later, MartyC-2IOO, D-49OWe’re riding on the escalator of life, we’re shopping in the human mall.
 
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