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Other than that, I got what I paid for. When taking pictures, take a moment to half-press the button so you can focus better and make the red square go green. Then the shots are clear and better.
You would be wasting your money. The lens error happened to me, twice. I bought a Canon digital camera and had it for not even a year and the lens stopped working, then I upgraded and bought this camera, same thing happened again.do NOT buy Canon.
Both cameras made good pictures but broke so my advise is stay away from Canon. Many people had the same problem.Just google it - E18 errorI bought the SX100IS as well and it had a lens problem too. Buy a SONY or Nikon. Like many others I had the famous lens problem. The camera was working for 9 mounts and the lens just stopped working.
Buy this camera while it's still available. I recently took a trip from my home state of Montana to California, and had an option to try the video on this camera for the first time. Pictures of the various colored fish at the Scripp's Birch Acquarium are first-rate. I am an old SLR camera person (Minolta XD-11, with both aperature and shutter priority options). Today I am ordering more 4GB memory cards, as the video takes up so much room that you need to have extra cards on hand--just in case the opportunity to catch some good video presents itself. Although my old SLRs were much more expensive and the top of the line in their day, this Canon surpasses my old Minolta in many ways--not the least of which is in cost and style. It was time to make the change to digital, and since I am now much older, unable to hike to distant mountain meadows, etc., this point & shoot camera turned out to be an excellent choice. I am thrilled with the exceptional clarity of the pictures, the crisp colors and the ease of operation.
Honestly though, I thought it was a great camera and if I hadn't kept it in my purse without a case, it probably would have been just fine. which I attribute to the eventual lens error.
brilliant. There are many cameras out there with the on/off as a switch.
So I bought a Cannon Powershot recently and it notoriously fell victim to the dreaded "lens error". If the on/off button was inadvertently pushed (which was common with it being in my purse), it would turn on and the lens would get caught and bumped around.
it's all about the little things. After many attempts at repairing it, no luck.
The real problem is that the on/off is a button as opposed to a switch, which made it very delicate to anything that happen to bump it.
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