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Purchase Advise: Canon SX280 HS or SX260 HS or Other

Started Jul 27, 2013 | Discussions thread
Hinder Contributing Member • Posts: 819
Re: Purchase Advise: Canon SX280 HS or SX260 HS or Other

I'll say it one more time, DO NOT buy the SX280 unless you don't need video or you're positive that the battery problem is fixed, I'm going on my fourth one that the firmware does not fix.  The maximum I've ever gotten in video mode is 8 seconds, Canon keeps sending broken and refurbished ones to me.  I paid for a new camera and they've replaced it with used defective ones, put them in video mode, try to zoom and they shut down or put them in video mode, start recording and I get 8 seconds or less, obviously nobody checks them when they send them back to me, the last one I sent back is now lost even though someone signed for it at the Canon repair facility and I have not heard a word from them, they just keep saying "sorry sir".  WTF?!  I want my camera or $300 back Canon!!!

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