My 6 month old Canon won't turn on. GRRRR

thesupe87 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 05:04 AM

What the heck. I bought this back in March, babied it - and now I decide I want to take a mechanically-related shot of my car in the garage, while I have it apart. I stick fresh batteries in it, and it won't even power up! What the heck? It's the Powershot a610 - is this common?!

I love the camera- it takes awesome shots, and its really solid feeling with the 4 AA's it takes. The batteries last forever. But now it won't turn on. I called tech support, and they gave me the info - said I had to send it out to them and they'll get it back to me within 7-10 business days. Man am I pissed...it just goes along with the wonderful day I'm having already :roll:

I guess I'll be forced to process some of the large collection of "already-shot" images on my hard drive

at least for the next month or so.

jcw122 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 05:08 AM

Tisk Tisk...a forum admin not posting in the most appropriate section. LOL just messing.

I don't know that camera myself, but do you have a memory card in it? I know cameras act sorta differently if they don't have the flash cards in.

I own a Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D)...I've had it for over a year without any problems

BTW, I'm a referral of yours on Fotolia. I read an article of yours on another forum, that BLOG thing, it was useful, and then I found these forums you linked, so thought I'd give back some

Picked Fotolia randomly.

thesupe87 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 05:12 AM

Yeah, I know - but nobody reads tho other section that much and desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm a mister fix it, I fix everything from my car to things around the house...but I've never taken apart a camera myself. Since it's still under warranty I think I should just let the Canon jerks fix it.

Welcome to TalkMicro, jcw

Thanks for checking out my website!

I played with a 350D at work the other day - our company bought one. I used it in full auto, and it actually was more noisy if not the same as my Powershot - both indoor and outdoor. You must have to use the manual settings to get it to work correctly. I am still learning about all of that good stuff :P Awesome camera though - I wish I could afford one. One month of my photo income would pay for it, but I have a lot of other bills to pay right now, and a wedding coming up...so maybe someday I'll upgrade.

Man, I hate when stuff breaks

jcw122 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thesupe87

Yeah, I know - but nobody reads tho other section that much and desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm a mister fix it, I fix everything from my car to things around the house...but I've never taken apart a camera myself. Since it's still under warranty I think I should just let the Canon jerks fix it.

Welcome to TalkMicro, jcw

Thanks for checking out my website!

I played with a 350D at work the other day - our company bought one. I used it in full auto, and it actually was more noisy if not the same as my Powershot - both indoor and outdoor. You must have to use the manual settings to get it to work correctly. I am still learning about all of that good stuff :P Awesome camera though - I wish I could afford one. One month of my photo income would pay for it, but I have a lot of other bills to pay right now, and a wedding coming up...so maybe someday I'll upgrade.

Man, I hate when stuff breaks

Thanks for the welcome, glad to be here. I didn't notice it was a smaller forum til I checked the number of users, but I'm optimistic, the userbase seems good

Yes, the 350D is very noisey at ISO 800 and 1600...it really bothers me sometimes, so I try to avoid using them. I think something like the 20D or 30D would perform better, but their out of my price range, or were at the time.

Yeah when stuff breaks it sucks, I break my stuff alot, either to make it better, or to figure out how it works, or both hehe. I usually fix it quickly though, so no big deal. I break my computer alot (Homocide against WindowsXP), that's a real PITA.

Anyway, good luck with getting that camera fixed!

Karimala · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 06:13 AM

If it makes you feel any better, Todd, yesterday I shot over 200 images with my D70 and when I went to upload them to my computer, the flash card died. Had to reformat the card, which erased everything. Two hours of work down the drain. :x

glitterd · #6 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 07:05 AM

I have the Powershot A95 and love love love it. I do have some goofy issues if I leave the batteries in it for too long without using it (more than a few weeks). So when that happens, I take the old batteries out, wipe off the terminals with a dry q-tip, change out the CF card, insert new batteries and everything is good.

I'm sorry you're having problems with your camera Todd, but hopefully you'll get it back from Canon just as good as new and in the meantime, you'll plow through the backlog of work you already have

Shannon

thesupe87 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006, 02:36 PM

Thanks for the support, guys -

Karin - that's enough to drive you insane, isn't it? Been there; one day I lost 2 hours of design work when I forgot to save, and my computer crashed on me. SAVE and SAVE OFTEN! That's my new policy since then. You have no control over a corrupt memory card, though.

Glitter - the A95 I heard is a nice little point and shoot. A lot of people really like theirs. I still will stick with Canon. Maybe this is just a rare case. When it comes to point and shoots, for the price you get a lot for your money when it comes to image quality, controls, and features. The newer versions of my camera with the flip out LCD's are 8 and 10 megapixel, and the lcd is even bigger yet. Once those come down in price, maybe I'll check em out.