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PowerShot SX60: failsafe to prevent shutoff while writing to card?

Glaucoides
Apprentice

Hey! Does anyone know if the PowerShot SX60 has a failsafe mechanism/software that keeps it from turning off until all images have been written to the card (even if you push the power button before it’s done writing)? I know some of the more advanced Canons do but not sure about the SX series.

 

thanks!

 

Noah

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shadowsports
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Legend

Greetings,

There is no feature that does this on any camera (any brand).  The time it takes to write images to a card is low, including video.  You don't want to shut the camera off while the card is being written to or read from.  

~Rick
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normadel
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Authority

Your camera's manual shows a green indicator light, to the right of the viewfinder, that flashes when the memory card is being written-to. See pages 3 and 174. Wait for it to stop flashing before turning off the camera.

https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/3/0300016133/01/pssx60hs-cu-en.pdf

 

Tronhard
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VIP

Hi Noah and welcome to the forum:

Your situation is unfortunate.  The 'failsafe' you refer to is the flashing light that tells a user that the card is being written to.  I am not familiar with any camera that has a further failsafe against ignoring that warning. That would require a pre-emptive and continuous writing to the card, which is not possible. 

Any camera from any camera maker, and for other devices such as computers cannot protect a user against themselves by prematurely turning off the camera.  I'm afraid you need to take this as a cautionary lesson to watch what is happening with the camera.


cheers, TREVOR

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