bought new eveready batteries, as soon as i try to take a picture it shuts down,whats up with that?.fuji a350 5.2 megapixels.i just bought it a few months ago,i think i might have inadvertently messed with settings?but don't know how to remedy.thx That's most likely the problem......... normal disposable Eveready / Duracell / Energiser batteries simply don't have the power to cope with modern Digital camera's.
I've got the next one down from yours, the A345... I found the standard silver ENERGIZER batteries that were supplied with it in the box were good for maybe only 10-15 shots at best quality picture setting before they were too shot to use in the camera anymore (but were ok to light the bulb in my torch).
Some replacement "Philips Longlife" (my a*se they were) Zinc-Carbon batteries were even worse... pretty much same symptoms as your camera.
Put some nice new ones in my camera before I set off out for a walk into town, turned it on to make sure they worked, everything worked fine. Walked 25mins to a local hardware store that was shutting down after 30yrs to get a few final pics before it closed for good, to be demolished into a LIDL supermarket. Turned it on, everything looked ok....... hit the shutter button, camera turned off...... this happened several times before I gave up and moved on.
Tried again in the local park 10mins later, and the sodding thing wouldn't even turn on.... which resulted in one or two colourful thoughts along the lines of "ah cr*p! don't tell me the camera's f***ed already, and I'm gonna have to send the damn thing back!?" (only had it about a week or two).
On a whim, I picked up some "VARTA HIGH ENERGY" batteries I saw in the Whitby branch of Woolworths, since they were only 拢1.99 for a pack of 8 or something daft...... and hey presto, the camera worked good as ever. Batteries even lasted much longer than standard disposable batteries - about enough to fill my 128MB memory card one and a bit times, where most normal ones were screwed after filling the standard 16MB card one a bit times. But they stopped stocking these batteries several months later.
http://www.en.varta-consumer.com/1085409...
While I was on my last few of those disposables, I picked up an ANSMANN PhotoCam III smart battery charger + matching 2100mAh high capacity rechargeable NiMH batteries, which last even longer between charges, and save you ALOT of money in the long run...... before I got them, I was going through a set of disposables one a week (which as you can imagine gets bloody expensive after a while)...... these rechargeables I usually only have to swap over once or twice a month before they need charging again, and they're going as strong as ever since I first started using them in August 2006.
With my NEW Fuji S6500fd (S6000fd), I've picked up a set of KODAK 2500mAh rechargables (cost me 拢10 for a pack of 4), which should last even longer between charges.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/nimh_batt... I went and got those and like magic ,it works perfectly. Report It
well uhmm.... just go take it back to where you bought it from and tell them ur problem or just figure it out urself its that simple! you should get reacharable batteries, and a charger, that should help. Ask the store clerk to fix it or replace it you don't have time for this . Buy rechargeable batteries, they last a lot longer than regular alkaline. Your camera was designed to use AA NiMH batteries. The standard AA's don't last nearly as long.
Keeping the LCD on your camera off and using your viewfinder will save a lot of your batteries energy. Mine did the same till i went with a
Lithium Battery.
Try theses. If you have fresh batteries, then the most likely possibility is that you are actually pushing on the on/off switch instead of the shutter release.
Some poor designs will put the on/off button right next to the shutter release, and people (including me!) will push the wrong button from time to time.
As others have mentioned, making sure you have good batteries is the first logical thing to check, and using rechargeable NiMH AAs will save you money in the long run, plus give you more shooting time. You need rechargeable batteries | 