randombob
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After returning a Canon SD870, I got this because my Fiancé had one and was pleased
with it (as was I when I borrowed it). It's really small but still easy enough to use,
however we are BOTH returning ours if we can...
If they didn't constantly have "issues" that prevented them from being useful, they'd
be absolutely stellar cameras for the money.
Problems:
Hers stopped focusing when zoomed in. As in, you'd press the shutter button
halfway, and it would beep once, indicating that it could not find a focus point in
the scene. This was only when zoomed, if she had it wide open then it would
focus OK most of the time.
We have BOTH had "Lens Errors" crop up, where the lens either won't come out or
go back in. Right now, mine's stuck in the out position and it won't go back in.
The camera then, is essentially a $150 paper weight, because it won't actually DO
anything. Except beep at me. And inform me that it's a useless pile of JUNK that
has a fatal lens error.
This is not a lemon thing; BOTH our cameras, the same model, have done the same
thing. As soon as hers gets back from Canon for service for the focus issue, I'm
sending them both back to Amazon.
I really expected better from Canon.
<a href="http://www.randombob.net/files/canonelphmustdie.html"> I wrote a little
more about my experience here</a>
with it (as was I when I borrowed it). It's really small but still easy enough to use,
however we are BOTH returning ours if we can...
If they didn't constantly have "issues" that prevented them from being useful, they'd
be absolutely stellar cameras for the money.
Problems:
Hers stopped focusing when zoomed in. As in, you'd press the shutter button
halfway, and it would beep once, indicating that it could not find a focus point in
the scene. This was only when zoomed, if she had it wide open then it would
focus OK most of the time.
We have BOTH had "Lens Errors" crop up, where the lens either won't come out or
go back in. Right now, mine's stuck in the out position and it won't go back in.
The camera then, is essentially a $150 paper weight, because it won't actually DO
anything. Except beep at me. And inform me that it's a useless pile of JUNK that
has a fatal lens error.
This is not a lemon thing; BOTH our cameras, the same model, have done the same
thing. As soon as hers gets back from Canon for service for the focus issue, I'm
sending them both back to Amazon.
I really expected better from Canon.
<a href="http://www.randombob.net/files/canonelphmustdie.html"> I wrote a little
more about my experience here</a>