Friday, April 18, 2008 3:25 AM
So I purchased a Canada SD 870 IS before coming down to the MVP summit. I was *very* happy with my purchase until just a couple of days ago.
The camera takes great pictures! They're very clear and colours are excellent. I do find sometimes the flash is a bit much, but I haven't played enough with what's available with shutter exposures to figure out how to tweak it.
The screen on the back of the camera is huge, and I don't miss the manual viewfinder at all!
All would be good...except for one thing: my camera is broken...but I didn't break it. We were at dinner the other night when I went to power up my camera and take some pictures. All was good. I went to turn the power off, and I heard a whirling sound and then a few beeps. My lens hadn't retracted though, and I got a message on the back saying: Lens error, restart camera.
The long and the short of it is now my camera is broken. I was able to get the lens back into the camera body and have it work for a short while, but soon it was doing the same thing. Even when I was able to get it *working*, the focus was totally fubar'ed.
Apparantly there are some Canon camera models that experience this, and from the forums I've read Canon isn't coming forward and admitting its a design flaw that they need to fix. There was talk on one forum about a class action lawsuit, but I don't know how realistic that is or how serious.
I know that Canon is a good brand, and I know people who swear by their Canon cameras. So the real moral of this story kids: it sometimes pays to get that extended warranty at Best Buy. ;)
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