05-01-2013 07:10 PM - edited 05-05-2013 10:54 AM
UPDATED May 5:
I apologize to the forum for mixing two different problems. They are unrelated.
Problem #1: User error. I thought I was using a class 6 SD card but I was wrong. The yellow "!" indicates a pathologically slow card. Upgrading to a class 10 resolved this problem.
Problem #2: UNRESOLVED. Red battery indicator comes on prematurely. On a fresh charge, it'll turn red after recording for a couple of minutes. On a partially drained battery, it turns red immediately upon entering movie mode or pressing the record button. Turn the camera off and then right back on in "still" mode and it shows full charge and works fine ... until trying to shoot video. I have not precisely measured recording times but it'll record for at least 20 (maybe 30?) minutes while flashing red.
04-07-2014 01:54 PM - edited 04-07-2014 01:55 PM
If there is a problem with the sx700, Canon will be happy to replace your new camera free of charge (with a refurbished model). All you have to pay for is the shipping, and they'll send you a used camera with the same problems, then tell you you're imagining things. After all, there are no complaints from MarioV of DPR (which might as well be known as Canon PR).
04-08-2014 01:59 PM
Hello,
Just adding a new case even if it is Canon USA forum!
I paid attention to this topic (I'm in Europe and I wanted to buy a SX280). I gambled, I lost, having battery problem while taking a video and zooming 😕
I can't say I was not aware! But I don't really shoot videos so, not a huge lost.... (from my own point of view)
It's very sad anyway Canon hasn't fixed this issue. My serial ia with *****4, the new firmware is already integrated I think.
The other point was I did not trust those early review with people who get quite early a camera which is on the market a month later... Either them, or the camera they got which can be fine tuned...
Regards
04-26-2014 10:11 PM - edited 04-26-2014 10:17 PM
Hello
A customer on Amazon says, if you use a microsdhc card with adapter
than there is no battery indicator problem.
I don't know if it's true or not
04-27-2014 01:30 AM
"A customer on Amazon says, if you use a microsdhc card with adapter
than there is no battery indicator problem."
What mem card has got to do with battery drain when zooming? I am sorry, some are so religioulsy blind that they still want to prove the earth is flat.
04-27-2014 04:41 AM
I have already done that experience and doesn't work....
04-27-2014 08:12 AM
04-27-2014 11:14 AM
I read in Reader's Digest that in a ouija board spiritualist session, Harry Houdini said that if a person is immersed chained in a tank, with the Canon SX280 clamped with teeth and he escapes, the battery problem is solved !
04-28-2014 09:04 PM
would anyone like to guesstimate what percentage of the 280's have this problem. i prefer this model over the 260 and would take a chance on it because amazon has a great return policy...no skin off my nose. but if this is an across the board issue i won't waste my time
thx
04-28-2014 10:50 PM
@miltk wrote:would anyone like to guesstimate what percentage of the 280's have this problem. i prefer this model over the 260 and would take a chance on it because amazon has a great return policy...no skin off my nose. but if this is an across the board issue i won't waste my time
thx
I'll go wth 99.9999999999999999%
04-28-2014 11:46 PM
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