Hi Camera dropped in sea yesterday.Battery and Sd card removed and camera washed in fresh water. Battery and card OK as checked in similar camera. Actual camera will not power up....can you help please. Thanks Jacqui

Your SD card is for your memory check your battery
this is what you check... turn off your camera Take out you battery charge and replace... Take out your SD card replace it correctly. Remove your lens and replace correctly then turn on camera and walla it works! PS its ok to leave the SD card in the camera. The on and off switch turns on camera with a charged battery ELEMENTRY WATSON.

Make sure battery is fully charged. Remove any SD card - does it still do this? If not, it may be defective card, or it may be a bad SD circuit board. Try another card. If it deos the same with another card, replace SD circuit and re-test.

This assumes camera has not been impacted, dropped, water damaged, etc.

My sympathies. If you immediately fished the camera out, removed the battery, rinsed it in fresh water, and let it dry thoroughly before even thinking about putting the battery back in and seeing whether it turns on again, then you MIGHT be able to salvage the camera. Otherwise it's time for a new camera.

The pictures on your memory card should be okay. Just rinse the card in fresh water and let it dry before trying to read the card.

Most cameras are not water proof. You have to dry up the water before it may work? If bath water is dirty, you have to wash the camera parts before drying it. LCD screen if wet has to be replaced.

hello jwill..... your camera External memory: Supports SD/MMC cards

I believe you are correct in saying that it does not support sdhc. Joe

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Hi,
As per your description it seems your camera have internal fault (circuit problem) which only get resolved in Kodak Service Center but before that you can check following things:-

• Clean your battery terminal with soft cloth. (Might be it will filled with dirt or dust )
• Direction of your battery might be wrong, Check out and put it again.
• Load new or fully charged battery.
• Check whether Memory Card/Battery Cover is properly closed.

Thanks....!!
Rating the solution is highly appreciated.

No, sorry. Seawater is every bit as bad as crushing or fire to any unprotected electronic devices.

Your camera is a total loss. The only faint chance of saving it would have been to immediately remove the battery and memory card and to immerse it in a large bucket of de-ionised fresh water (as used in car batteries and steam irons)... not exactly the sort of thing most folks have access to at sea or on the beach. Even then the chances of saving it would have been almost zero.

As long as the xD card was not formatted it is possible to recover the images that were accidently erased or unable to be downloaded to computer. You can go to the following website link and download an image recovery software program that is free of charge.
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
You want to download a program called Zero Assumption Recovery. It is a very simple program to use and people have had much success in recovering lost images.

To salvage the pictures you could just use a memory card reader. As for the camera itself I cannot say, but by your description it doesn't sound promising.