I don't believe it???My Kodak Easy Share P850 camera has been acting up. First, Review was 'sometimes'. Then over the weekend, I took over 20 photos. Since my Review Mode hadn't been working, I didn't bother looking at them in Review Mode.
When I downloaded my photos, uh oh, not all were there.
hmmm - we've all been there - what is wrong? who to call? where to turn?, is this junk already? should I buy another? Hey, this one was $300.00 (an enormous amount for me!) and is just 2 years old. I am using an additional memory card and have tried another memory card, and tried Internal Memory - all are acting squirrelly. Was the battery needing replacing?
I went to Kodak site, many times, trying unsuccessfully, here and there, searching, and to add another issue, my User's Manual is nowhere to be found. (BTW, KODAK makes a LOT of stuff!) When you don't know what the problem is, it's difficult to find the right SEARCH term.
OK, contact Kodak (live!) and type my message. Wow - this is amazing technology! Bjorn V. was my contact and happily, he spoke/typed excellent English. I didn't wait more than a minute to connect with him. We exchanged info and he said I had to format my memory card. Huh? what is that about? I can feel the panic rising up my spine, but he said this is a fixable problem and easy ( !!! ) to do. "It's NOT the battery - it is a memory issue." Yikes - I know I cannot do thissssss!! wahhhh! 8-(
He directed me to a PDF file (enormous) for the User's Manual and lo and behold, there is something mentioned about "Review Mode - No Images," but doesn't give me instructions. Hmmmm now what????
Finally, gathering my courage, I started pushing buttons on the camera and found myself deeper in it's menus than I've ever been before. And there, right in front of me it says "Format". After considering the warnings (nothing of interest to me) I hit "ENTER" and something made some noises, and ... "DONE." Yep, I think that does it. I took a bunch of photos, they are all visible in Review Mode.
My mouth is still hanging open in disbelief - I actually DID fix it!