Hi. I have a Pentax Optio M20 Digital Camera. When I hit the on/off button, the camera turns on, the lens zooms out for a second and then back in, then it shows the "Pentax Optio M" load screen, then it shows "Auto Picture" in the center and a green dot in the bottom left with the words "EV Compensation" next to the dot. While it's showing this last screen, it beeps 3 times right before the lens zooms out again then back in just before the camera turns off. I have changed the batteries multiple times. So it's not the batteries. I connected it to the computer and then hit the on/off button. It beeps twice before the red LED light in the front of the camera lights up while the removable disk window pops up on my computer, showing 2 folders ("DCIM", and "FRAME"). I click on these folders and there's nothing in them. I hit the "on/off" button on the camera again and it turns off while the removable disk window on my computer goes away. None of the other buttons on the camera seemed to do anything whether connected to the computer or not, during every phase of it's on status. What can be done to resolve this? Thank you.
Ok have same problem press the power button and and the play> button at the same time. your screen will come on but not lens. then hold the play button down untill lens come out. this will work for you , you may have to do it a couple of times but it will work
When the camera is turned on, the lens extends, makes a slight buzzing sound and then retracts and the camera turns off.
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i got it!!! on my cam i hold down the menu button at the same time power on, it will showup a " ver 1.00" and lens move a little maybe u have to do it 2 times but second time it should work
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Hi. I have a Pentax Optio M20 Digital Camera. When I hit the on/off button, the camera turns on, the lens zooms out for a second and then back in, then it shows the "Pentax Optio M" load screen, then it shows "Auto Picture" in the center and a green dot in the bottom left with the words "EV Compensation" next to the dot. While it's showing this last screen, it beeps 3 times right before the lens zooms out again then back in just before the camera turns off. I have changed the batteries
multiple times. So it's not the batteries. I connected it to the computer
and then hit the on/off button. It beeps twice before the red LED light in the front of the camera lights up while the removable disk window pops up on my computer, showing 2 folders ("DCIM", and "FRAME"). I click on these folders and there's nothing in them. I hit the "on/off" button on the camera again and it turns off while the removable disk window on my computer goes away. None of the other buttons on the camera seemed to do anything whether connected to the computer or not, during every phase of it's on status. What can be done to resolve this? Thank you.
i can scroll through the pictures, and mess around with them, but when the camera is in picture taking mode, it turns off within 3 seconds and i can't change anything
Hi. I have a Pentax Optio M20 Digital Camera. When I hit the on/off
button, the camera turns on, the lens zooms out for a second and then
back in, then it shows the "Pentax Optio M" load screen, then it shows
"Auto Picture" in the center and a green dot in the bottom left with
the words "EV Compensation" next to the dot. While it's showing this
last screen, it beeps 3 times right before the lens zooms out again
then back in just before the camera turns off. I have changed the
batteries multiple times. So it's not the batteries.
When I turn my camera on, it makes a beeping tone and the lens extends and the screen turns on, all normal; however, once the lens is fully extended, the camera then makes a buzzing sound which is not normal. It then goes into shutdown mode, making a normal beeping sound as the lens detracts and the screen shuts off, and a second buzz occurs, which is not a part of the normal shutdown sequence. The whole process takes about 5 seconds, from the time I push the on button, until the camera has returned to the off setting.
I tried the suggestion of turning the camera on while holding the "play" button, and this worked to turn the camera on in display only mode, so I could see pictures, but it will not switch to camera mode. I held the "play" button down for up to 30 seconds, and tried to repeated push the "play" button, but the camera remained in display only mode.
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