OK, Moose, I am so sorry...I meant to say this morning that it is YOU who
are too smart for me, especially that early in the morning without another
cup of coffee. See....I was right! I said Walt...and heck, I'm sure he is,
too. ;-)) But I meant to say "Moose".
What you said makes sense...Thanx for taking the time to *try* to 'splain it
to me. ;-))
Oh, and I don't know how many times I've told people exactly what you ended
your email with...the E-300 is really a computer.
Candace
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Candace
> Candace Lemarr wrote:
>> OK, but, see...<snip long, very sad story>
>> Now...does that make any sense to you? My brain has been working
>> overtime on this. Could the fl-50 make the camera do something like that?
>> Could my batteries be doing it? Could my charger be shorting out or some
>> weird thing, and screwing up my battery which in turn is messing with my
>> camera? I have 3 batteries, and the camera freezes with all of them.
>>
> The one thing that these troubles have in common is the loss of camera
> setting information when it should not be lost.
>
> All digicams have some provision for maintaining such info when you
> change the batteries. In the case of the E-300, page 127 of the manual
> says:
>
> "The date/time setting is saved for approximately 3 months using the
> built-in
> battery. Depending on how the camera is used, the date/time setting may be
> erased earlier. Date/time settings will also be lost if the camera is
> left for a long
> period with no battery loaded. The internal battery will be fully
> recharged in
> about one day with the camera’s battery loaded."
>
> I don't know specifically about the E-300, but with many electronic
> devices with settings backup batteries, including computers*, reliable
> operation even with main battery/AC power available still depends on the
> backup battery being functional. It seems like sloppy engineering, but
> it happens quite commonly. The fact that it takes about a day to
> recharge the back-up with the main battery in, means the current to it
> from the main is very small.
>
> It the BU is dead, it's possible that the trickle from the main battery
> is sufficient to maintain various internal settings most of the time,
> but occasionally, the number of system demands exceed that current, the
> voltage falls too low, operational data kept in internal memory are lost
> and the body locks up because it no longer knows where it is or what it
> is doing or there are incompatible conflicts in data. Removing the
> battery and replacing it when the BU is dead restarts the operating
> system from the non-volatile firmware storage, so it starts working again.
>
> Unfortunately, Oly took the more elegant solution of a built-in,
> rechargeable back-up battery. If I had this problem in a Can*n, for
> example, the first thing I would do is replace the battery with a fresh
> one. Of course, it could also be in the battery connections.
>
> Although the manual talks only about the date and time as being saved,
> I'll bet shot settings are also saved, otherwise, there would have been
> noise about that foolishness before now from people changing batteries
> in the middle of a session. You can check for sure by setting date/time,
> taking out the battery briefly and seeing if the date and time are lost.
> If so, you have a failure that justifies requiring Oly to service it
> again. And a possible culprit for your other troubles that would be
> repaired, either fixing things or eliminating one other possibility. No
> guarantees, but who knows.
>
> Moose
>
> The E-300 is really a computer, running a version of MSDos, more than
> likely.
>
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