20 Most Recent Canon PowerShot A410 Digital Camera Questions & Answers

Try reading the card independent of a camera i.e. on a computer or a photo kiosk to determine if the card is readable damaged

To restore your camera settings to the factory default: Press the Menu button. Use the Multi-controller to navigate to the CameraSettings 4 tab. Use the Multi-controller or the Quick Control dial to highlight Clear All Camera Settings and then press Set.

If you cannot gently push it in while powering the unit on (the unit tries to pull in the zoom lens). You need to open the unit. You need proper philips screwdrivers (PH0-PH1) and even smaller to open the unit and see if the situation can be remedied. A plastic pry tool is great if available, (one example below).

• The zoom lens is usually operated by small plastic gears that break easily and replacements are hard to find.
• The unit is usually a sandwich construction, that has a lot of small components. Needing a lot of skills to get it back together and working.
• The issue might be elsewhere if the unit doesn't power on, etc.

There is a little slide switch on the side of the memory card. Good luck!

You should have a disk that came with your canon and in it is a driver for that device if you don't have a disk then simply go to the device website and go to support and find your model and from there you can download and install the right driver and/or program that may come with it...Hope this helped .

The date and time (and a lot more) are stored with every picture in its EXIF metadata. Any photo viewing/editing program should be able to display this data. To print this data, please consult the documentation for whatever program you're using to print your pictures. Depending on the program and printer you may print the date on the image, in the margins, or on the back.

Are you sure you have an SD card, 2GB or smaller, and not a higher-capacity SDHC card? While SDHC cards will fit into the slot, they will not work with the A410.

Do you mean the lens? If so, see http://www.fixya.com/support/r13011856-lens_error

See pages 27-28 of the advanced guide.

The A410 works with SD cards. Your 8GB card is an SDHC card and won't work in devices not designed to use them. You need to use SD cards, 2GB and smaller.

Replace the date/time battery. See the instructions on page 87 of the advance user guide.

This sounds like a 'stuck shutter'. Especially if it does not make the faint clicking noise when taking a picture anymore.

Try the solution on the following page at your own risk.

http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2009/05/simple-fix-for-stuck-shutter.html

You can download the manual and more here.