Ok, so I drafted this post after about 20 minutes of trying to get my camera to work. It was not getting power. It took about 3 minutes to figure out I had another bad battery compartment on my hands. The camera before this Fuji, the HP Photosmart 320 or some such, had the same issue, where the battery compartment wouldn't close right, and there wasn't enough juice to the camera. I was really worried that my one and only camera, which had had more problems than a Winnipeg demolition crew, was finally, and irreparably broken.
Alas, right after I drafted this post, I went back to it, trying everything I could think of to bring my camera back into operation. After a good long while, and a lot of coaxing and hoping, I finally got the camera to close right. I suspect what happened was hard impact when the battery compartment was in the wrong spot, pushing down the little ridges it is supposed to hook into. I spent about 3 hours trying to raise those ridges again. Now that i have it right, I am gonna leave it, compartment down, for awhile, so I can ensure the ridges stay right.
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