Micro 4/3 Oly E-PL2 panic...faied to work!!!

Location
London UK
Name
Andy
Had a mad 5 mins where my beloved E-PL2 failed to work. I turned it on earlier and changed the settings to take RAW images, then took a few shots. Uploaded to lightroom which failed as lightroom has yet to support RAW at this time. Turned camera off and left it. Later this morning I used to to take images of 2 new lenses on the NEX 5. Turned the camera on and the light was on but nothing else. i opened up the lens and nothing was coming up on screen at all. I fiddled with this and that but nothing. Took a few shots which worked but sounded labored, not right, still nowt. Turned camera off and on a few times, nothing. Took battery out and put back in and hey presto all worked again...PHEW!

However all my settings are back to std and i have had to re set everything (still need to sort a few) so now I'm worried the camera is going to do it again!! Is this a common thing with cameras? I hate it when things don't work then do again, I loose all confidence in the product.
 
However all my settings are back to std and i have had to re set everything (still need to sort a few) so now I'm worried the camera is going to do it again!! Is this a common thing with cameras? I hate it when things don't work then do again, I loose all confidence in the product.
I guess you've never used a Windows PC and faced the blue screen of death? Jeez, even my Mac and iPhone have locked up a few times. Don's right - sometimes you just have to turn these newfangled electronic devices off and let 'em reboot. Obviously if it happens a lot, you've got a problem. But the odds are you did SOMEthing in your sequence of events that you'd have to exactly duplicate to get the same thing to happen and, if this was the first time, you probably don't do it often. So unless it becomes a frequent occurrence, I wouldn't worry.

-Ray
 
Andy, I would have felt that sense of p-a-n-i-c rising in the pit of my stomach, too! I am relieved that all is back up and working again and am sure that Don and Ray are right about the whole camera/computer thing. I never think of my camera as a computer with a lens...but I keep being reminded.

Glad all is back to normal!
 
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