I just bought 2 of these cameras. One camera used up the batteries in 4 days. Enagizers! yet I had no picture on a new SD card. Why?
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I bought 3 of these last year and returned all of em. 2 of them were eating up batteries and the other one had a 10 ft detection range. I went with a stealth cam g30 and have been happy!
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the only thing I can think of is that one of the camera's don't work. Maybe you can return the unit for another one. good Luck.
436858
I had a similar problem. The sony analyst walked me through power resetting and pulling batter + memory card. None of the checks corrected the problem. I used the 'tap it on a hard surface' technique and it is back up and working. The pulling the camera lens did not work so the tapping technique will be used until we tap it into its grave.
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I beleive my camera was a new one. The 1st one I recieved did not work and they replaced it.Have had no problems with it except I keep forgetting to take it along to events!!
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FYI, when I got mine replaced, they honered the original warrenty(1 year) expiration date. I love this camera, 'cause no one knows your shooting when carefully placed in pocket! WEEEE! Got it replaced this last summer, current one still working great, although that same connection is getting to the spooky point! SO, I just B VERY CAREFUL now! 4 the price, and it's NO DETECTION ability, it's WELL worth it!
2015355
Maybe need to check out the memory card. Have no problem w/my camera in the past 2 wks I have taken over 125 pic and still taking pictures so my advice is the memory card is it good or bad, try another memory card.
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I suggest getting fastest SD card you can. I only see that kind of slow time on these types of camera if you are shooting RAW+ and using slow SD card or continuous shooting mode. If this is supposed to be normal I'd complain to Sony.
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Thanks for the reply. We actually ended up returning the camera to FP after calling the help center and trying different cards. The card reader must have been broken, because the replacement camera they sent us, read all the cards we had tried in the old one... FP did send the new camera with no problem.
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The camera I bought had a battery and charger but no memory card. I think I bought from BigBobsElectronics or something like that. But my Nikon COOLPIX came and it looked like it was brand new! It worked perfect and the battery lasts forever! I love it.
2014071
This happened to me with another camera.. Turn the camera off, eject the SD card and try to open the SD card from your printer or other card reader, your pictures should still be there. Good Luck!
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Can't say since I only have one battery which is in he camera. You might want to check it periodically and maybe charge it for awhile. I hope to purchase another battery eventually. Also have a spare memory stick.
875753
You know I went on vacation early November to PR and I have to say I survived ALL DAY on one battery. But, I don't use flash, and I don't chimp. I just shot jpg+raw, with a few short videos, under a minute. I would only charge the battery back at the hotel overnight. I was there three days, and returned with about 1300 images. No problems running out of juice.If I were to get another battery I would swap them out each charge. I would not let either the original battery, or the replacement sitting idle. I would run one down, then swap it out, let the worn battery charge...
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Well, indeed the batteries eject when you change SD card, but I've just checked that the date/time setting nevertheless remain the same. Looks that the settings are independent (at least for a while) of the the presence of the batteries.
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I just tested mine and it turns on without the memory card. Didn't give me a warning that I was taking imaginary pictures either. Yours may be defective and need to be returned.
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Dear Brian: yes, this is VERY normal; in fact, i cannot think of a single camera that comes with a memory card in it's original box (just the camera itself), other than ones in which come in some kind of a 'package' deal, such as the ones you might see on amazon, that include the camera, and several other items you may want, such as a bag, an sd card, an extra battery, etc. most cameras you buy today do not generally include an sd card; probably because everyone has such vastly different 'needs', as far as an sd card is concerned, so rather than supply a 'basic' sd card, they just let the customer/consumer pick up one of their own. hope this helps! love, joyce
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hi, yah.. it seems the HD sd cards will not register I have any photos on them..but then I put the card back in the camera and I can view the photos on the card.. grr.. is that what you found.. have you been able to resolve this issue?
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Did it power off? Do you use SD cards on your video camera ?. If you don't have SD cards the camera will power off. I only replace SD cards, and since I have this fabulous camera I have bought SD cards only once. I only recharge the battery, never had to change it.