My little Canon Powershot A70 was a very nice little camera, but it finally gave up the ghost and I have been left for almost a year now without a camera to take pictures with. After working my fingers off last month to get ahead on the finances I went down to Wal Mart to buy a new camera.
This is the first time I have ever purchased a camera brand new off the store shelf, so I was fairly excited to be owning a brand new camera. I was browsing along and spied the red markdown sticker for a Polaroid camera in the case, nearly invisible behind the bottom of the sliding door. $49 for a camera that had sold for $129. It was the display model, but Wal Mart tended to be good from my past experience in selling good working display models so I was not scared by that.
Getting my little camera home I was disappointed to discover that it would not power on. Assuming the batteries that had come with it might have something wrong with them I went and got my fully charged NiNH batteries that I use with my Wii remote. The batteries did not work. Camera did not power on. Major disappointment. I even called Wal Mart to find out what my options were since it had been the last camera like that, if it fails to work could I use it toward price of a different camera and how long I had to bring it back in.
As I was dejectedly looking at what had quickly come to be a very well loved little pink camera even before I had got to use it, I somehow got it to turn on. No idea what I did, just kept fiddling with the batteries and holding the power button down until *gasp!* it came on! I knew from my Canon A70 that the power button has to be held for a few seconds before the cameras will power on.
After a few hours of the camera seeming to work great, it stopped working great. Okay, I made it work once, I could make it work again. Once more to fiddling and once more it started working after a bit. This would come to be a reoccurring theme with the camera. Work for a while, then I would have to figure out how to make it power on again. Frustrating. Very frustrating.
I decided to do some research and discovered quite a few complaints identical to mine at the reviews page on Overstock.com, where it seems to be a very common issue with this camera, with all of the solutions seeming to be the same as my fumbled discovery – fiddle with the batteries and the camera will eventually power back on properly. There are enough positive reviews on the camera that I assume that aside from the apparent flaw in the battery connection the camera is at least a decent camera.
I am now on a search for if there is a way to fix the problem with the apparently faulty battery door connection.


