Troubleshooting Tips for Digital Cameras

"Often times when you're working with the digital camera, you could run into some problems. A lot of them are really easy to fix, like maybe, say you are trying to turn your camera on and it's not turning on the first thing that could be wrong is that battery either isn't in the camera which has happened to me, (laughs) or the battery isn't making a proper connection. So you can just pop the battery out, double check, push it back in, make sure it clicks in all the way or there could be actually a problem with the contacts on the back of the battery. A great trick for that is take the eraser from your pencil and just very lightly go over the top of the contacts on the battery, blow it or use your little brush or whatever to get all of the eraser remnants off and then insert it back in and that usually solves the problem. That shouldn't happen to your battery until you've had it for a while but that is definitely something that could happen. Another thing is if your memory card is full then your camera won't take pictures, so there are a couple of things, you know that you could do with that. You could go back through and delete some of those images that you don't want or better yet right after you've gotten done taking a bunch of fantastic pictures, and say your memory card isn't even full, you might go ahead and download those pictures to your computer or upload them to the internet to share with people and that way you know you've always got plenty of room on your camera. I don't know why this is but so many just they get all these pictures on their camera and then they never take them off and they don't go out and buy backup memory cards (laughs) so now you've got your camera with you and you can't actually take a picture. There also can be some problems with the way that the pictures download to your computer or with your printer and usually those are software problems so a great thing is a lot of the software that comes with your camera is available online and you can just download it and reinstall it, whether it's a printer driver or whether it's the software for reading the data off of your camera, it's very easy to go get that. Additionally they also have the manuals online so if you can't find the manual for your camera and you want to take my tip and read the advanced manual you can just go get that information online. So if there's ever a problem there's also a troubleshooting section in that manual so that also might help you figure out what's going on with your camera. Well thank you so much for tuning into Expert Village again I'm Erin Lee Neumeyer and I hope that you learned a lot today about all the features and how do you get the most out of your compact digital camera. If you have any further questions you can go ahead and feel free to email me at erinneumeyer@gmail.com or go to me website. It's www.ephotola.com. Thanks."