20 Most Recent Olympus Stylus 710 Digital Camera Questions & Answers

all these ppl are wrong i just fixed my moms camera with the same problem ur lense gears are off track simply turn ur camera on and as the lense comes out pull it till it comes all the way out dont be scared to pull and wiggle it a lil bit imean what have u got to lose . like that guy said he put it in his pocket and it came out broke its cus the camera turned on in his pocket and couldnt come all da way out and got jamed

Clean contact points of both battery and charger with q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol. This solved my problem with blinking lights and not charging of the batteries.

Use a separate card reader to download your pictures.

Are you sure you did not change any settings? Looks like a wrong white balance. Try putting the camera in automatic mode. Not in any scene or manual setting. If that solves the problem, only use other settings, if you think you could get a better result than the camera. (that is in extreme situations0 99% of the automatic shots, can't be done better in manual setting.

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries. Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo management program such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

Hi Camera Dude, could you tell me what Westfield46's solution was, it does not seem to be listed above & my camera is doing the same! :\

If you want them to be permanently deleted you can format the memory card and this will clear the card of all data. If you just want these certain images deleted then you need to be in Playback mode - press the Menu button - go to Playback menu and press Ok - then choose the key option and turn it from ON to OFF. This will remove the lock and allow you to erase the selected image.