Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital Camera - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Maybe lens needs adjustment. The info on this page may help. Copy and paste this link for more info.


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See if camera electronics can be reset. Contact the manufacturer for this procedure. If nothing can be done to restore camera to factory defaults then the electronics are fubar. May not be cost effective to repair.

Foreign body on the sensor

The PostCard size mode will not be available in the Digital Macro, Stitch Assist, or any of the Movie shooting modes. (See the last couple of pages of the manual for mode compatibility.)

Have you tried "macro" mode?

Try eBay. I bought a couple of them there, but it was quite awhile ago.

OOPS!! Take care. This could damage the camera seriously. Try a pair of tweezers, like the women use to depilate. Try to pull it out in a straight way. Don't jitter. After you have removed it, look with a magnifying glass if no contacts in the camera are bent. If only one contact on the card has a title dent, or is bent, don't put the card back in the camera. For a few bucks you buy a new card and it is not worth risking your camera for that.

It is almost impossible to not use the AF mode from the camera. Perhaps you managed to put the camera in Accessery lens AF, without any extra lens on the camera. Or perhaps only the pictures are blurred, because you zoomed in to far, without a tripod. As long as I can't see a picture it is difficult to decide where the problem comes from. While shooting a picture, just press the shutter release button half, till the green light goes on. Then press the button fully. Success

first you should save the pictures to a computer. After you delete them they are gone forever. But the view menu, you just press the menu button. In the most left tab, the third line is a bin. goto that line and press the arrow to the right. Then you can chose what you want to delete. Only one picture, pictures with a certain date, a folder or even all pictures. it is in the English manual on page 101 and 102

I'm sorry you're having trouble with this. I have put together a picture that shows where the mini-USB plug is supposed to be attached to the camera. I hope it helps. This picture actually shows plugging the AV cable into the receptical, but right behind it is the mini-USB port. This is where you connect the USB cable. It looks like you have to lift the flap on the corner to reveal the plugs.

Yes, just try photo recovery software to rescue the erased photos, here are some you may rely on. Both programs can also recover videos and music.

Photo Recovery Software (for Windows)
Mac Photo Recovery Software (for Mac OS X)

Be careful: Before your pictures are recovered, do not attempt to save more files to the memory card of your camera in case the original files(your pictures) are overwritten.

Sounds like an internal problem to me. If this is only happening in the TV mode then it could be that the camera is showing its age and starting to slowly malfunction. The G5 is a great camera but is now around ten years old. If all the other modes are fine then perhaps you should continue to use it but personally I'd get another camera because you may be shooting something important with it and it will decide to completely mess up the images.Hope this helps.

There should be a small sliding switch on the side of the SD card.If the switch is broken, you can look here to fix it.

Make sure you not only enable the self-timer as shown on page 16 of the Basic manual but also the number of shots as shown page 17. You may view/download the Basic manual at http://www.fixya.com/support/p510062-canon_powershot_sd1000_digital_camera/usermanual-557F124-pdfYou may also be interested in the Advanced manual: http://www.fixya.com/support/p510062-canon_powershot_sd1000_digital_camera/usermanual-5EAC919-pdf

This happened to my SD1000 and I followed the step by step instructions shown here: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Replacing+Canon+PowerShot+SD1000+Broken+Flash+Unit/7778/1 and when I got to step 15, I found that the small plug that connects the flash to the camera body had been disconnected when the camera had been dropped. I simply pressed the connection back in tight and reassembled the camera - and it works. Maybe this happened to yours too??

You may download some of the Canon software from http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/digital_cameras/powershot_sd_series/powershot_sd600#DriversAndSoftwareYou don't really need the Canon software. The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com ).

Use a card reader instead of the camera from now on.

After some inspecting of the camera it seen the issue lies with the lens, not the camera itself so don't go banging the camera up or you might damage some other part and the camera will be broken for real. Inside the lens is a closer which block the internal system from capturing image. The closer look just like the one you see before turning on your camera but it's smaller and it's inside the lens way in the far back. Look carefully and you'll see it - you will see the closer if your screen is black while in capture mode otherwise you will see a nice round glass (the internal lens for capturing image/video).

Think of if like this, imagine an eyeball with its eyelid close. That's what happened when the screen is black while in capturing mode.

HOW TO FIX IT: In order to fix the black screen while in capture mode and cost as little damage to your camera as possible, simply turn on the camera in either picture or video mode and look inside your lens, there should be a closer in the far back end. Gently hit the lens a few times until you don't see the closer no more and only a round glass and your camera should begins capturing image and video again.

Good luck to you all. And remember don't use anger to force your camera to works or you will regret it.

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Yee Yang
Canon PowerShot SD1000

Use a card reader to download your pictures to a folder you create on your desktop.

try taking the batteries and memory card out let it set and put everything back in it ang cut it on