snapsnap1973
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I just bought my Canon SX280 about a month ago and I've been having this problem since I bought it of it shutting down even with a full battery. I have 2 batteries by Canon and they both do the same thing. Sometimes it'll work for a while, but then it just shuts down and says "Charge the Battery". The strange thing is is that after a while or by removing and reinserting the battery it'll come back with a full charge and go on working for a while again and then shut down again with a full battery.
I'm not a big phorographer so I don't use it that much anyways, but today I decided to give it a try and had a fully charged battery. Same thing happened and I was away from a spare battery or my charger. So I looked up the problem on the web and found a site with a gentleman who had had similar problems and he contacted Canon.
Canon told him that "sometimes a capacitor inside retains a charge" or something similar and that you should "remove the battery, close battery door and then hold "start" button down for a full minute. Well, I did it and IT DID WORK and now the camera is working fine and displays a FULL battery as it should. The trouble is is that I don't know if this is a temporary fix .... only time will tell.
Has anyone heard of this?
I'm not a big phorographer so I don't use it that much anyways, but today I decided to give it a try and had a fully charged battery. Same thing happened and I was away from a spare battery or my charger. So I looked up the problem on the web and found a site with a gentleman who had had similar problems and he contacted Canon.
Canon told him that "sometimes a capacitor inside retains a charge" or something similar and that you should "remove the battery, close battery door and then hold "start" button down for a full minute. Well, I did it and IT DID WORK and now the camera is working fine and displays a FULL battery as it should. The trouble is is that I don't know if this is a temporary fix .... only time will tell.
Has anyone heard of this?
