It's no surprise that the Oly distributors would discourage cleaning the
contacts in the camera. It's a very delicate operation to begin with and
you're running the risk of not only mechanically frelling the contacts,
but also frying the camera's electronics with a static discharge.
Does the new card work OK in the camera now? If so, you might have to write
off your old card.
If not, I'd guess it's time to find out how much it would cost to get the
camera serviced by Olympus -- you may end up paying just the minimum fee.
I had an IS-1 that got dropped 1m onto an open suitcase full of clothes
that refused to focus properly afterwards -- minimum fee charged to fix up
the gears, thank you Olympus America.
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:02:20 +1000, "Michael Raj" <rajsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <003801c0d0be$1509c7a0$9e000c3f@user> thou hast written:
>Dear Andrew.
>
>I have tried your suggestion of pulling the SM card in and our several
>times. I purchased a USB card reader which is connected to my PC. I was able
>to read the title of SM card folder but unable to access the jpg files. The
>new card was formatted and that from the camera.
>Yet both don't seem to be able to be read by the camera.
>
>Olympus distributors in Sydney discourage any cleaning of cmaera contacts.
>
>I am well a truly baffled!
>
>Michael
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Beals
><bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2001 6:35 AM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] (Fwd) Olympus C1400XL Digital Camera Smart Card Error
>
>
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:52:00 +1000, "Michael Raj" <rajsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Dear Andrew
>>
>> Thanks very much for your tip on cleaning the contacst of the Card and
>> Camera. Makes sense and I shall try it out.
>
>
>The only part I disagree with is that the contacts on the cards are
>gold-plated. Gold does not corrode, and too much cleaning could wear it
>off.
>
>It sounds as if you do not take the SM cards out of your camera too often.
>I read mine by slapping them into an adaptor that plugs into one of my
>laptop's slots. You may be able to safely make the connection work well by
>ejecting then re-inserting the cards into your camera.
>
>That said, I did have a case where a particular card appears to have gone
>dead for a while, but it was only an 8Mb card, so pretty useless except at
>lousy-resolution mode. I held onto it anyway, and tried it again recently.
>It wanted a formatting, but seems to be OK.
>
> andy
>
>
>
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