SX280 - battery life shooting video

[factoryguy]

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.

[bradmoss]

yes, I guess that's the reason they didn't make a lot of fuzz about it, it was a quite "silent" modification to the battery

[bradmoss]

I have bought a "new" SX280 from Amazon on January 2014 and the battery says it was manufactured on April 2013. What would you think, Is it important? What is the expected life of the NB-6L battery ?

[ruko]

Have you read any of the 800 + pages of complaints concerning this camera on this web site? The multitudes of complaints have also spilled over to other web sites including Amazon's, DP Review and a few more. Good luck and don't expect much help from Canon.  

[ruko]

Sorry, should be 80 + pages of complaints, not 800.

[UnionStation]

The battery was manufactured on April 2013 because that's when the sx280s started rolling off the assembly line. It's not important. An NB-6L is an NB-6L. You can expect precisely the same experiences that we've all been reporting. The camera is a lemon. Period.

[bradmoss]

I cant really get convinced, it can't be true with all the specialized reviews and noone saying nothing about this.

[UnionStation]

(facepalm)

Go to your favorite search engine, type in "sx280 battery" and you'll see hundreds of the kind of 'specialized' reviews that really count - from customers who've plunked down their own hard-earned cash on this camera and experienced the same flaw. Ask the guy on page 85 who ignored the ample customer complaints about this camera, bought it anyway and took it on his honeymoon - only to see it shut off when he needed it most. Buyer beware.

[bradmoss]

So if we all were to believe Canon is not trying to fix this problem what would all we doing at Canon's website?

If we were to believe Canon took advantage of us and doesn't care how is it that is already a new thread asking for a new model from Canon replacing the SX280? Wouldn't it be more reasonable all of us would be far away from Canon and from this site? I firmly believe Canon is not going to dissapoint us, it has a name to take care of.

[UnionStation]

You might want to check out the camera and get back to us.

SPOILER ALERT: Scroll back through 89 pages of customer complaints and you'll see Canon's official declarations that the problem has been solved and that we should all go on our merry way.

[bradmoss]

So what are you doing in the forum?