|
Technology Computing, programming, science, electronics, telecommunications, etc. |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
11-07-2008, 01:29 PM | #1 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
Goddamn digital camera
My digital camera (a Canon Powershot A530) is having issues. But they're weird. As far as I can tell, it seems that the flash is broken, but it knows the flash is broken, so it won't take the picture if it thinks it needs a flash. If I turn the flash off, or turn it to auto-flash but aim it at a window, I can take pictures all day. But, of course, they're dark and blurry. The rest of the time I just hold down the trigger and it does nothing.
Does this sound like something that might be common, or easy, or cheap to fix? Or should I just suck it up and get a new one? |
11-07-2008, 01:45 PM | #2 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
Do you remember if you registered the camera? I understand that some cameras get firmware updates after specific problems have been found. Registering the camera will enable the company to find you if there is an issue. I did a quick search for that model and learned that there had been a recall for some of them for a battery door short circuit.
I'd just keep the flash turned off all the time, crank up the sensitivity on the sensor, and take most of the pictures outside. Complain a lot, and maybe you will get a new camera for Christmas. Basically, I don't have a solution. |
11-07-2008, 03:22 PM | #3 | |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
Quote:
|
|
11-07-2008, 06:34 PM | #4 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
|
Ah, but if he buys you a new one, that means he gets to tinker with the old one.
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
11-07-2008, 07:39 PM | #5 |
...
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 8,360
|
Spynet has infected your camera. Tomorrow, the world!
__________________
"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!" |
11-08-2008, 02:06 PM | #6 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
If the flash had worked, the "fireplace" picture would not have been as good, even though we would have seen more.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
11-08-2008, 04:02 PM | #7 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
|
Well, true, but it wasn't my picture... Of course, if LabRat's looking to buy a camera with a special "silhouetting only" feature, I'd be happy to sell her mine!
|
11-09-2008, 12:36 AM | #8 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
But it could be your picture... wink nudge wink
I'll give her mine too, an Olympus C-400 that the flash has mysteriously quit on. Guess I'll have to find a body that will use my AF Nikkor 35-70, AF Nikkor 70-210, and AF Micro Nikkor 105, lenses. But at the moment I need a sugar mommy to make that happen.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
11-09-2008, 01:02 AM | #9 |
This is a fully functional babe lair
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Akron, OH
Posts: 2,324
|
My Nikon D50 would do that for ya bruce.
__________________
Kiss my white Irish ass. |
11-09-2008, 10:45 AM | #10 | |
King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
|
Pssst.
OK, I'll give you some advice here, but don't tell anyone. You might find a firmware update on the Canon site that will fix your problem, but I did not find any there(Canon Support). If the Canon firmware does not fix your problem, you can load the Canon Hack Development Kit firmware update for the A530. You load the firmware onto your memory card. The firmware overrides the factory firmware. The firmware updates only last while the camera is on and the file is deleted unless you lock the card. Locking the card will not affect the camera saving pictures but will leave the firmware file alone. Quote:
I haven't found anything similar to CHDK for any other brand of cameras, so I might be buying Canons from now on.
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 11-09-2008 at 10:52 AM. |
|
11-09-2008, 06:34 PM | #11 |
When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
Posts: 12,719
|
Yeah, that CHDK thingie is really cool. I was going to try and use it on TF's camera, but her's is one step up from the ones that the hacks will work on.
__________________
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|