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Video focus

Hi, I am fairly new to photography and just bought the SX530 to take pictures and videos of hummingbirds that eat on our balcony. When I focus the video on the bird feeder from about 5 feet away I get great, crips videos. When I move the focal point ...

Half screen not visible on Canon PowerShot

I am using my canon for the first time. Yesterday, everything worked fine. Today, only half of my display screen is showing. I have charged the battery overnight. I removed the SD card and battery for 15 minutes. I have changed settings on the DISP. ...

my Powershot A630 won't focus correctly

My old but great Powershot A630 will take great macro shots but when I try to for any other type of shot, landscape, architecture, etc, it won't focus. I get the focus beep, but all the shots turn out fuzzy. Is there some fix for this condition. I kn...

How to recover unreadable photos in the SD card

The camera shows questions for some of the JPG photos on the SD card without any reason. DPP 4 cannot edit them, either. However I can see the photos in Windows 7 Photo Gallery and can edit them in Photoshop. How can I recover these photos, so that t...

Help me take photos of Mars?

Hi everyone.   I am new here.   Trying to take photos of Mars but no luck. I have a Powershot SX 530 HS I use a tripod I set it to the "P" modeI turned off the image stabilizerI chose the AF frame but no luck Am I doing something wrong? Thanks so muc...

Powershot S120 Shutter type

What type of shutter does the Powershot S120 have? Does it have a rolling shutter or global shutter? I could only find information on shutter speed in the user manual.

Canon G7x Mark ii sitdown/tutorial settings. NOT vlogging - tech support

Hey! I have the Canon G7x ii and love it for vlogging! However, whenever I do sit down videos, the quality sucks.. The image is not sharp at all. When I edit the video on my Retina display I get so bothered by the low quality. I am filming in video m...

SD1200 IS camera not recognized

I use two Canon cameras in a Windows 10 environment: myPowerShot 520 HS works fine, but my computer stopped recognizing my SD1200 IS camera today. When I connect the SD1200 camera and turn it on, the camera displays a "Communication Failure". The com...

PowerShot SX620 won't find my laptop

I have been able to successfully wirelessly connect to my desktop computer but I cannot get my Powershot SX620 HS to find and connect to my laptop. Both computers use Windows 10. On the desktop I went to add a new devise and went through the setup st...

SX700HS WiFi

I am having trouble connecting my camera to my PC. I have followed the instrutions very carefully but no luck. I can see my PC on the camera but when it tries to connect it sits there for about 5 mins and then fails. Help please.

SX50HS ISO will not go below 320 or above 1600. My second SX50HS works as it should. Any ideas?

Bought the camera from Canon refurbished. Have had the camera over a year with no problem but recently noticed the ISO settings will only show going from ISO 320 to upper limit of ISO 1600. The manual shows it should be from ISO 80 to ISO 6400. ANy i...

SX70 Indicator light

hello. I have just purchased my SX70, and have  question... Should the  indicator light be on all the time the camera is?  The manual says "the indicator on top remains lit or blinks depending on camera status" "On":  recording stills to the memory c...

Powershot SX540 HS power lever not working

I am hoping someone can help me with my powershot SX540 HS. The zoom lever doesn't appear to work when i try to zoom in on something. It works when i use the framing assist button, and when i zoom out, just not in. Any ideas please?

Firmware sd790is. Site shows no options. Where then?

I would like the "E" build of the firmware. Iterating through all the OS options still shows no firmware files:'(

I have a power shot SD790 is what is a comparable camera today