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This is an awesome camera... until it breaks.
I too experienced the dreaded E18 error. This camera was never dropped and always traveled in a hard case. I was told that I can send the camera to some place in IL for repair, but I need to find the warranty card. I find it incredibly annoying that a consumer products company with the tenure of Canon would refuse to acknowledge an obvious bug in their camera, and force everyone to dig the warranty card out of the junk drawer. Nothing is more irritating than a company putting the burden of repair on a consumer when the defect is in the engineering. It's not like I dropped the damn thing into a pitcher of beer (oh, memories of my old cellphone - *sniff*) or got thrown into a pool with it in my pocket (farewell, old camera). In any case, I wouldn't buy this camera again due to the sheer number of people experiencing the E18 error. For that matter, I may just avoid Canon entirely in the future. Another broken screen This review was written only to tell everyone that the screen is very fragile. I am an extremely careful person and have gone to great lengths to protect the camera. Unfortunately just last week, I became another one of the many disappointed customers to find a broken LCD screen on their SD200. Be careful when buying. Great point and shoot camera I've had several small digital cameras in the past, but none compare to the Canon Powershot series in picture quality. This camera is perfect to carry in your pocket all the time. E18 renders camera useless The camera itself works very well, and I would recommend if it weren't for the notorious E18 error (search Google for it) - which occurred at a particularly unfortunate time for me. Canon charges $250 to fix the problem if it's out of warranty, and denies that there is a design flaw in the camera (which there is - thousands of people are experiencing it). Great camera, but LCD screen is fragile I had previous experience with canon digital cameras and after my old powershot S50's screen cracked, I thought, no big deal just buy another canon. Anyway, bought this camera (actually bought 2 - the other one I gave as a gift to my sister)and over past 6 months use here are my impressions: Pros: >great portable shooter for first timers >intuitive controls, including easy video function >great basic camera for getting 4x6 pics Cons: >LCD screen again cracked without explanation The screen cracking again on this camera together with what happened to my SD50 leads me to believe that the LCD's on Canons are very fragile and you probably have to buy a hard case to enclose this camera to protect from possible damage. Given that cracked lcd's on digitals render them almost useless, a future improvement from Canon should include reinforcement of these screens or possibly use a sliding cover to protect them when not in use. | |
