sveet
04-16-2005, 07:47 PM
I am losing my Canon faith. I have had the mentality of buying only Canon, when it comes to camera's, and have always had perfect cameras. This goes back to my first 35MM SLR to the current SD500.
I have had several SD500's and am having a hard time getting myself to keep the current one.
Each one has had a different major problem, each compelling me to return it and try again.
All but one have had the low light focus assist off center to the point that the light it outside of the center focus rectangle.
All had differing degree's of whine in the .avi mode. Some minor, some pretty bad.
Two had buttons on the back that seemed loose. They would click funny when pressed.
One had a dead blue pixle on the display screen.
Each had varying degree's of gear noise when zooming in. Some were pretty light, and one (the current) is particularily loud. It sounds simply like a sloppy gear drive.
I thought I had a perfect one last week. What was a bit strange is that it was packaged different than the rest. The SD card came in a different sleeve. A Spanish set of manuals was also included (along with the English). The CD ROM was also different. Same content but different writing, etc... on the lable.
Like I said.......it WAS perfect. It made it thru about 35 pictures and it died. It shutdown, and then on restart it said relace battery. I charged battery and all the pictures were screwed up. Pink lines thru everything. The appeture was hyperacting back and forth. About 20 seconds and it shutdown, claiming the battery was again, dead. Back for another return....
At that point I was going to wait a few months, hoping that QC would resolve these issues. I couldn't make it. I love the performance of the SD500, so I went and bought another one Friday. I couldn't live without the thing. They are that good (when they work).
This one makes the most gear noise of any I have had, when zooming. This worries me, long term. Will it fail early?? Who knows?? But I am concerned.
It also has an off target low light assist lamp. Not really bad, but off screen by full zoom. At full wide, it is in the bottom 1/2 of the screen.
I can't decide what to do. I love the performance, but am worried about then lens noise and the off target auto assist lamp sucks for low light use.
I want to keep it, but it is tuff knowing stuff just isn't right.
I have had several SD500's and am having a hard time getting myself to keep the current one.
Each one has had a different major problem, each compelling me to return it and try again.
All but one have had the low light focus assist off center to the point that the light it outside of the center focus rectangle.
All had differing degree's of whine in the .avi mode. Some minor, some pretty bad.
Two had buttons on the back that seemed loose. They would click funny when pressed.
One had a dead blue pixle on the display screen.
Each had varying degree's of gear noise when zooming in. Some were pretty light, and one (the current) is particularily loud. It sounds simply like a sloppy gear drive.
I thought I had a perfect one last week. What was a bit strange is that it was packaged different than the rest. The SD card came in a different sleeve. A Spanish set of manuals was also included (along with the English). The CD ROM was also different. Same content but different writing, etc... on the lable.
Like I said.......it WAS perfect. It made it thru about 35 pictures and it died. It shutdown, and then on restart it said relace battery. I charged battery and all the pictures were screwed up. Pink lines thru everything. The appeture was hyperacting back and forth. About 20 seconds and it shutdown, claiming the battery was again, dead. Back for another return....
At that point I was going to wait a few months, hoping that QC would resolve these issues. I couldn't make it. I love the performance of the SD500, so I went and bought another one Friday. I couldn't live without the thing. They are that good (when they work).
This one makes the most gear noise of any I have had, when zooming. This worries me, long term. Will it fail early?? Who knows?? But I am concerned.
It also has an off target low light assist lamp. Not really bad, but off screen by full zoom. At full wide, it is in the bottom 1/2 of the screen.
I can't decide what to do. I love the performance, but am worried about then lens noise and the off target auto assist lamp sucks for low light use.
I want to keep it, but it is tuff knowing stuff just isn't right.