Thanks to everybody that has posted to this topic.

I suspect that JohnX and Jonathan-Mac came closest to the solution as the fault occurred whilst the battery was low and was the original supplied with the camera.

Solution - recharge battery - remove lens - turn on & release the shutter a few time - attach lens - problem fixed.

Hope that this may help somebody else in the future.

Kind regards to all - Rob

Thanks John and Chris for your comments.
Chris - the SD card is unlocked as I have just saved my photos to the laptop.
John - Battery is on an overnight charge, had previously tried your suggestions, except reformatting SDCard. Will give this a go tomorrow.
Thanks again both.
Kind regards Rob

Hi hope that some will be able to help.

My camera has just started to 'play up' and not record photos on SD card. The camera was purchased second hand a year ago and has been working fine till now.

The battery was running low and the camera stopped (not a surprise), and the battery was recharged overnight.

However on reinserting the battery shutter fires, turning on the camera triggers the shutter, as does touching any other button on the back of the camera, while touching the shutter release button causes multiple shutter releases. Turning off the camera also triggers the shutter. No pictures are recorded by the camera. The screen display showed battery fully charged.

I have reset the camera, but no change . Took out the battery overnight and it's worse. Turning on the camera triggers the shutter but sometime the display screen is shown other times it is blank, and after an hour the camera was quite warm to touch and the battery indicator showed the battery depleted. (the camera was in the OFF postoion.

Has anyone any suggestions?