Olympus Camedia C-5050 Zoom Serious Problems

Hi,

I have had this camera for a couple of years and have been very happy with it. About late

fall I kind of stopped using it as I do most of my photography outside to capture accurate

colors. The last time I tried using it I took a picture of the cover of few catalogues which

almost all came out funky but I did not make much of it. I had so many things to do that I

just set the camera aside. Coming this spring , I started using the camera again and it just

was not functioning properly . One of the reasons I like Camedia C series camera is that

they have a great super sensitive lens and take very good pictures in all lightings indoor or

out , dark or light. So to make a long story short, almost all images come out screwed up.

Over exposed to death, with inaccurate colors. I Figured I probably have messed up the

setting so I have gone over and over everything to no avail. The LCD screen displays this

purple shade that covers some, part or all of the image when a photograph is taken and

many symptoms exist from super over exposure to actual stripes of purple showing in the

images. So I am at a loss as of what is happening and why it just decided to not work

properly. I used to take images outside all throughout the day with almost no problem

but now with exposure compensation at zero , outside in strong sunlight it comes out

super over exposed. I actually can't even explain what is happening as there is no

consistency with any thing anymore.<div></div>

here is another image taken outside in strong direct sunlight with compensation set at

zero

And yet this one is taken again in the same environment with compensation set at minus 2

. Note that the rug colors and detail are good but again note the cement floor that it was

taken on displays the same problem of purple lines .

I am note sure why the last two images showed up as links but I did reduce the width to

510 pixels. Please also note that the third image is still overexposed to a degree.

Read this page, as the C5050Z is listed among the cameras affected by a defective Sony

CCD:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100701sony_ccds.asp

and then you should go to your retailer.

Good luck!

Hi Vincent,

Thank you very much for your note . I greatly appreciate it. I had already found similar

article under Digital-Olympus furom with direct info on C-5050 problem posted by

another user. Never the less much obliged. For everyone else that might have a similar

problem Olympus will fix it for free for 4 upto 4 years from the purchase date ( hopefully ).

For every one else that has ( or for that fact does not yet have ) this problem , the problem

has to do with CCD which is basically the heart of the camera failing. You can see the

advisory Olympus America Had published here:

http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/C5050C730Advisory.pdf

And again, thank you very much Vincent.