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Digital Camera's and heat?

May 28, 2005 9:21AM PDT

I am a new owner of the Olympus c-7070. I've had it about 3 weeks now and I'm very happy with it so far however, yesterday while I was in Denver I left my camera in the car for about an hour. It was a dry hot day and the car was quite warm but nothing ridiculous, probably about 100 degress in the vehicle, 80 outside. I saw a few shots I wanted to take so I went back to the car to retreive my camera. It started up fine and I began shooting. Then after I fired off about 10-15 shots the camera made a long beep, turned off and the lense didn't retract 100%. I turned it back on and checked the battery which I had fully charged the night before. As I expected it was fully charged. I tried to focus it but it wouldn't focus then it made a beep again turned itself off then on and again wouldn't focus. Thinking it might have condensation on the lens I wiped the lens with my lens cloth and tried again. Same. I turned it back on and the same sh** continued!@$@!%! It finally died for the day with the lens halfway extended.

This morning it was a bit cooler so I grabbed my camera to see if it was working. It's been functioning perfectly all day.

What gives? Should I contact Olympus? Should I send it back right away? If I do send it back I have a feeling they might not find anything wrong with it as it's functioning perfectly at the moment. Do you think it's defective? Should I never expose it to ''extreme'' temptures? Has anyone else had issues like this in reference to heat and/or malfunctions?

I purchased this camera to take with me on an extended journey to some very hot places; Asia, New Zealand and Australia as I will be travleing for a year plus come September. If the tempeture thing is an issue what should I do? My Sony Cybershot functioned fine over there four two months two years ago.

I just want a second or third opinion.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice!!!!!

eRik

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