"Go Figure" for the day.

"And it goes like this!"¹

1. cymrullewes' Olympus D-500L digital camera develops an odd fault and will power up with alkaline or lithium primary cells, but not with NiMH rechargeables any more.
2. I call Olympus.  Olympus is baffled, but suggests we send it in for free diagnosis and a repair estimate.
3. We send it in.  The repair estimate comes back at $245.  We say, "No thanks, can't afford that right now."
4. Olympus sends the camera back to us.  We unpack it and put the batteries and flash RAM card back in.  Now it won't power up at all, even on brand-new lithium cells.  "Crap," we think, "Olympus broke the camera."
5. Acting on a hunch, I hard-reset the camera, then put the new lithiums back in.  Camera powers up.  "Huh."  So I swap the older, partly-used lithiums in.  Camera powers up.  "Huh."
6. Acting on another hunch, I drop in a set of recently-charged 2300mAh NiMH rechargeables.  Camera powers right up.

Go figure.

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[1]  Reference!