Pentax Optio 33LF turns itself off

My 33LF is just out of warranty. I can turn it on, take one shot then it turns off all by itself. I have to wait a few minutes before it will work again, then the process repeats itself. Anyone else had this problem? It has new batteries.

Yeah but, no but, yeah but, no but......

I've got similar but worse on my Optio 330 (long out of warranty). I switch it on, lens pops out then lens pops back in and it powers off.

Not batteries - can get green battery reading on view images (which still works) and have tried two fully charged batteries (not at the same time!).

Can anyone help us both?

Ta

Mike

Maybe yes, maybe no

The focus mechanism in the Optio range of cameras is novel, and we found it can get stuck in an "off-limits" position. In that state the lens extends, the camera beeps and retracts it and powers off. The "mic" setting (audio record only) worked fine, as did playback.

Read at your own risk!...
With a little bit of investigation we found that manually turning the focus mechanism was enough to do the trick... however, this required opening the unit and locating it. In the Optio S40 it was near the lens, and is visible as a worm thread with a small slot in the end (which we turned), and bingo

There was another thread on this... will see if I can dig it up...
Here: https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1577&highlight=optio+s40+fo...
Matt