Forcably penetrated by Canon...

PayetteRucker said:
It was a closeout, they don't make the camera anymore and now that I look on froogle I don't see anyone who is even selling it anymore... one more reason why this hurts so bad, the camera took such amazing pictures...
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Yeah, understandable how you feel. I've got an A630 that I've had for two years. The first problem I had was two weeks ago, got a low battery reading and it wouldn't shoot. When I got home, I tested the batteries just out of curiousity. The batteries were still good, I put them back in and everything is fine.

Canon makes good cameras, they've been around as long as Nikon.

These things are no longer built-like-a-tank SLRs anymore, they're complex computers.

Before tossing them, I would try some of the battery/reboot/BIOS stuff that other folks suggested.
 
How cold did the camera get?

I always carry my old, 35mm Pentax K-1000 as a backup when I venture out into the cold (it will shoot without the battery, and it has a cloth shutter that will operate when near frozen... though of course I keep it inside my jacket to keep it warm).

Cold is really hard on camera's!
 
Nikons are great cameras, nothing to be said against them except they have an over-rated reputation. That started back in the 50's and 60's when they were the cool thing to have...especially in black...because that's what a few top professionals used. Canons were just as good, likewise Minoltas. They all got their lenses from the same place.

We can take any POS digital camera today with 8+ megapixels and get better pictures than we ever got on film. And it's free.

Last I heard, there's only one lab left in the country that will process Kodachrome. Sad but true.
 
I seem to remember reading that Kodak was discontinuing Kodachrome.
 
go with fujifilm next time round :) my fuji SLR i have dropped on rocks, soaked in water (didnt work for 3 months lol), dropped a million other times, flown round the world twice and been through extremes of hot and cold. My old canon they gave me a bill when i took it in to get it repaired under factory guarentee, ended up getting a refund through the people i bought it through for selling me a camera that didnt last 3 months.

EDIT: my fujifilm has endured alaska and survived, nuff said.
 
I have Olympus E-1. It's has served me really well, no problems sofar. Unfortunately, the newer generation E-series seem to have more toyish feel to them, and more primitive (not for professional-minded photographers). Also the lenses have the same feel to them.

I guess they want to satisfy common folks more now.
 
Coldwood said:
Nikons are great cameras, nothing to be said against them except they have an over-rated reputation. That started back in the 50's and 60's when they were the cool thing to have...especially in black...because that's what a few top professionals used. Canons were just as good, likewise Minoltas. They all got their lenses from the same place.

We can take any POS digital camera today with 8+ megapixels and get better pictures than we ever got on film. And it's free.

Last I heard, there's only one lab left in the country that will process Kodachrome. Sad but true.
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Ur' kidding about the bold above right?

Even the highest "megapixel" digitals made today won't touch a medium format film's megapixel equivalent (unless you're spending $35 thousand or more for a Seitz 6x17 digital (160mp) or work at Fermilab and have access to THE 500mp Dark Energy Camera).

As far as image detail goes, my medium format film (Velvia) shoots at a 50 megapixel equivalent (if your digital camera doesn't have a 50 megapixel rating... you're lagging behind my Velvia).

Velvia in a 4x5 large format is at about 240mp and Velvia in a large format 8x10 will give you about a 960 megapixel equivalent (almost twice what the highest megapixel digital will give you).

After digital gets "whooped" in image detail capability, we'd then have to look at the difference between film and digitals ability to capture intensity detail. For example, can consumer digital cameras record the intensity range and small intensity differences comparable to, or even better than film? I'm not sure, but I think film still wins.

Bottom line? A big film negative beats any digital mega-whatever made.
 
Sorry to hear about your camera issues. My SD700IS which I gave to my wife when I got my SD870IS Elph just had it's lens cover stick partially open for the first time ever. We managed to unstick it but now I'm keeping watch to see if it happens again.
While I'm strictly a Nikon dSLR shooter (D70, D300) when it comes to P&S cameras I've switched to Canon after upgrading my CoolPix 4300 to the D70. I just haven't been impressed with the Nikon P&S models I've played around with, or read reviews on lately.
I was looking at an intermediate P&S to go between my SD870IS Elph and my D300, and after comparing the Nikon P6000 and Canon G11 I went with the Canon.
If you're looking to go with a different manufacturer, Panasonic is apparently making some really great Lumix models lately.
 
Sorry to hear how Canon has treated you.

+1 for Nikon's customer service. My daughter received a Coolpix L16 for her tenth birthday. Even after warning her about treating it gently, a couple months later we got the "lens error" message. I sat on it for a couple of months more, but figured I had nothing to lose by sending it in. Within weeks, we received a brand new L20. "Uneconomical to repair."

Joe
 
A similar thing happened with my Canon G9. After 13 months it just quit working. Nothing, no lights, no sound, no action.
I saw on Flickr that a lot of people were having the same problem so I called Canon. They hadn't heard about any problems with the camera and it would cost $195 to fix it.

The only reason I bought this over a Nikon is that Nikon didn't have one similar at the time. They do now so it's the one I'm going to get.

Chad

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Coldwood said:
Nikons are great cameras, nothing to be said against them except they have an over-rated reputation. That started back in the 50's and 60's when they were the cool thing to have...especially in black...because that's what a few top professionals used. Canons were just as good, likewise Minoltas. They all got their lenses from the same place.
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The reason Nikon has the reputation it has is because of it's lenses. They make their own lenses and so do most the other companies. But during the Korean war photographers bought Nikon lenses in Leica screw mount and were amazed at how they compared to the Leica lenses.
 
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