Alkalines are notorious for having extremely short life in cameras. A good long-term solution is to invest in some NIMH batteries and a quality charger.
Please clarify for me.... Could you show me exactly WHERE in the link that you included they use the words "burn the unit up", "vent or explode", "melt the camera", or "A530/A540 burning up"? Or did...
One of the thing you need to do in order to get more accurate focusing is to turn off AiAF in the menu and use P mode instead of Auto. P mode is still full automatic, but it lets you tweak a few...
40X or better should be just fine. Besides slower downloads to the computer, the slower cards will often take a pause when shooting a lot of pictures in burst, or during a longer video. To test your...
The A700 is a little better at ISO 400 than the A6x0 models. It has more noise at ISO 800. Get used to using noise reduction software, no matter which camera you buy. It will turn those...
You must have been in manual mode. It was telling you that the exposure was AT LEAST 2 stops off. I don't know why Canon can't show us -2, -3, -4, etc.