Slimshot Dead!

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Fox Murdoch

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Hi all, I got a Fujifilm Slimshot some time ago, and after a long period of not using came back to find it totally dead. The batteries had been charged the last time I used it, and like normal I put it back when I was done with it, as I always had.

When you flick it on it doesn't respond and the little display shows nothing, and when you plug it in the display blacks in as much as possible, regardless of whether the camera is "on" or "off".

I suspect it's the battery, or a hardware problem with it, but as far as hard knock (read: damaging) go, this camera has suffered nothing more than finger presses to snap shots.

Any help is appreciated, I really wanna see this little camera come back to life (and kill us in a zombie-like technological horrorshow rip off fashion)

Cheers, Fox.
 
Welcome to PC Review:wave:
I'm sure someone will be able to help you later with your camera problem.
 
For a problem like that there isn't much anyone could advise as you are right, it probably is a hardware fault. If you have tried batteries and plugging it in, it doesn't look good.

Is the unit still under warranty as that is probably your only recourse :(
 
Unless some miracle happens I think the camera is a gonner! :(

Does anything happen at all when you power it - any LEDs flash or lens movement?.

The price of cameras has come down massively now (if you are just after a point and shoot type).
 
It is my understanding that the battery used in them things was/is prone to failure if not used regularly ... they die if not used. :(


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Curse them and their temporary way of existance according to a humans perception of such a thing!

It's not such a big deal though, I did want the little thing to live again so I'd have a novel little camera to wow people with again, not for any true benefit (dad and my gf Kim have flash new cams anyway).

A friend of mine was considering taking the little devil apart, which I figure can't hurt, seeing as the warranty, wherever it may be in my father's garages big wide green mold infested tool-shed/PC stuff storage unit it may be, is void. Hell, may as well make sure of it, right?

Curse you Fujifilm!
 
Fujifilm have "implemented" some great "technology" but fail to pass on any pitfalls (don't they all) ... I'll use their "flash cards" as an analogy ... nobody could use them in their PCs, as a simple way to move data, until someone brought out a reader. We always seem to have to play catch-up. ;)

If you do decide to take it apart, be equally warned that they can explode from being overcharged. :eek:

The "battery" was a clever design in that it can be "molded" into a specific shape and very lightweight ... great for mobile phones, not so good for something not used too often.


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So Fujifilm are great at taking a novel idea and packaging it well, and selling it, but beyond that it's really up to the users (who are prior to users, buyers)? That's not a very customer friendly way to run things.

I'll take the warning about explosions quite well, but I don't think there'd be any explosive material inside, nothing than could cause a cute little "pop" like spark to be honest, but my knowledge of computer technology is best written on a match-stick.

I got a friend, Jason, who does literally anything I need doing with anything computer based.
 
but I don't think there'd be any explosive material inside
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Sorry?

... the battery by design can explode if overcharged. :rolleyes:

I got a friend, Jason, who does literally anything I need doing with anything computer based.
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I thought we were talking about a camera?

Do as you like, sorry for interfering.
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Interferin, nah. Conversing, yes. And I honestly didn't consider the battery as being a part of the camera, silly mes. We're talkin about the cam, but it was Jason who first suggested taking at it like a surgeon. I may tap it.
 
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