PowerShot SD1200 IS Won't Focus

[mpanfile]

Our Powershot SD1200IS Digital Elph won't focus in automatic, camera, or vidoe settings.

Occassionally, the first picture after turning it on does focus okay, but pictures after are all out of focus.

[mariah1902]

This is very unusual as the first picture comes out to be fine and after that all the pictures are out of focus. If there were something wrong with the camera or the lens then there is no way that your first picture would be perfect. Maybe there is some software problem. Did you reset the camera to the factory default?.

[George2024]

yes

[George2024]

what's weird is if you have the camera in manual mode and switch to auto it gets really bad.