-Update : Got the camera working again last night – the 4th set of new batteries I tried did the trick. Weird, but true. But alas, it was too late to get photos/video. Hopefully tonight.
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I woke up this morning full of excitement. I had a beautiful Sunday ahead of me, full of Christmas present-making, cookie baking, and blog photo/video making. Yes, I was going to shoot a little house tour video of the house for you guys. Just to show off all our little Christmas touches. But when I went to turn on my camera, it wouldn’t turn on. I tried three new sets of batteries. No luck.
It’s a Cannon Powershot SX20 IS, and it’s a little under a year old. Sure, I’ve taken tens of thousands of photos, but it seems a bit odd to me. Estimates I found online were for about $150 – $200 to repair it. . . maybe. Anyone have experience with a digital camera just stopping working? What about with getting a digital camera repaired? Not sure it’s worth it to shell that much out for a repair.
Anyway, I guess I’ll see you guys when I have a working camera again. It may be a few days.
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Sounds like it’s time to cue the What the Hell? posts.
Shouldn’t that camera still be under warranty?
You probably tried this… but did you try a new battery? sometimes they get fried and can’t come back to life with charging.
Hope it magically works! Good luck girl!
Canon has super customer service. If it’s under a year old, it should still be under warranty… call them and they’ll give you all the information on sending it in for repair. If it’s something on their end, they’ll foot the bill, but if it’s something user related (for example, I dropped my point & shoot camera, so they won’t repair it without charging me) you’ll have to pay the charge. If all else fails and it’s something that can’t be fixed, they offer a fairly decent trade-in program from what I’ve heard.
Try WikiHow. I remember when my daughter had problems with her camera she went there, typed in her question, and had the answer and the camera sorted within half an hour.