The ol' digital camera is giving me grief. Specifically, I am getting the "low battery warning" and consequent shut down as soon as I put new batteries into it. It wasn't such a battery hog when I first bought it (though still went through them pretty fast); but this is not supportable.

Is it worth buying rechargable NiMH batteries and trying them out? On the plus side, I get the impression from various websites that they are much better in digital cameras than standard alkaline batteries (which I've been using so far). Also I suppose they are better for the environment if I keep on using them. On the downside, if the camera is basically broken (which is a concern, given that it didn't always have this problem so badly) perhaps I would just be throwing good monety after bad?

Advice gratefully received. (Especially from sciamanna or anyone else who also has the Fuji Finepix A340.)

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There's a problem with my (cheap Fuji) digital camera - possibly two problems: everything on the screen is inverted (upside down, reversed). When I turn it on to try and take pictures, it tells me (in mirror writing upside down) that there is a "zoom error", which I imagine is connected with the backwards problem, though it may not be.

On of the games on my mobile phone sometimes has this effect on the display, in which case I just turn it off and turn it on again. Is there an equivalent "hard reboot" for a digital camera?