P510 issue

I believe it is just a repair/replacement plan. Nothing else.  After I saw your questions I opened up the little book and it appears it may not even cover warranty claims, but will have to ask as it depends on how you read it.

I do not have an extra battery (yet) and currently I would believe if the battery was an issue, I would see it in total camera use, and not just when I hit the shutter button.  I have a few cards, but the other cards are very slow and impact performance of the camera so bad, that I find them unusable.  A very repeatable example is with my other cards I can only take up to 19 seconds of HD video before the camera stops and takes a long time to save the small amount of video ( I am assuming the camera buffer was full).  I bought a PNY ProElite 32GB at 35MBs as it was the fastest card I could find on short notice at a local store.  I wasted 3 hours of time driving around town and using my smart phone to search for/call camera stores around me and couldn't find one that was open (very annoyed).  It appears real stand alone camera stores around me are closing their doors and had to buy this at Best Buy.

As it doesn't even try to take a picture and acts like the button either doesn't exist or has been disabled, I currently could not say it is the memory card either.  I just need more evidence to this idea.  If someone knows how the internal camera works and handles pictures that could cause this, would like to better understand this and would promptly go buy another card. I would love this to be the fix as it is nice and easy.

When I contacted support they wanted me to ship them the camera, and I have to pay for shipping.  I do not like to even think about paying for shipping as it is their quality at fault.  But it is a good idea, and I will inquire again and flat out ask for the firmware and see if I can flash it my self.

Thanks for the comments!