I think I just did a hard reboot on my camera. I have a Kodak DX6490 that I really like. It has all the automation you need for snapshots at parties, etc., but gives you lots of manual control when you want that as well. (Except for manual focus. It doesn’t do manual focus. I wish that it had a manual focus ring…) We just took it to Cambodia and Thailand (The other side of Thailand, thank god…) and after using it all day during our first day at Angkor Wat until the battery no longer had even the juice to turn the camera on, it refused to recharge. Nothing.
Luckily we had a second camera, our Sony DSC-F55. This is a completely automatic camera and has lower resolution, but it worked great. The Kodak was relegated to taking pictures in our hotel room while tethered to its power supply, which, while powering the camera just fine, refused to charge it. I scrubbed the contacts on the battery and in the camera, tried using the charger adapter on different voltage sockets (Including the 110V one in the airplane!), but to no avail. Thinking that there might be a problem in the connection between the adapter power socket and the battery, upon returning home I immediately plugged the adapter in to the EasyShare docking station, but it also refused to recharge the battery.
Out of ideas, I took the camera off of the docking station and put it on the desk to remind me to find out where to send it for service. Then I got hooked into Counter-Strike:Source and forgot about it for a couple of days. Once on the Kodak website and looking for the Japanese customer service telephone number, I decided — just for the fun of it — to put it back on the docking station. Ten minutes later it is obvious that the thing is charging, and 3 hours later it has a full charge.
So what gives? A hard reboot? Anyone have any ideas?
Oh, and the Kodak doesn’t have a battery charge indicator anywhere in the camera. That really shouldn’t be. Come on, Kodak. You have a great piece of hardware, but the little things matter.
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