SOURCE: I have the Canon Rebel XS and it was working
see if you can test the camera with another battery , you may be able to borrow one from a local camera store
SOURCE: how to take action shots with the canon rebel xs
There is an action shot setting on the wheel on the top of the camera. If you want to manually control the camera:
-Raise ISO
-Select Tv mode (shutter priority mode)
-Select a fast shutter speed
-Manual focus on what you want to take
-Take multiple pictures so one will be good
SOURCE: My canon eos rebel xs won't turn on. The red light
Check if the battery is fully charged. you may try resetting the Camera to the factory settings. If the issue persists, try power resetting the Camera. To power reset, remove the battery of the Camera and press and hold the power button for 30 seconds and reinsert the battery after one minute and check the operation. If the issue still persists, the service is required.
SOURCE: I have a Canon Rebel
I hate asking a question to answer a question but, did you get a picture after the camera finished flashing busy? Were you using one of the program modes like portrait, close up, landscapes and so on or were you in a creative zone such as manual, AV, TV or P? Here is a good link to a review on your camera http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/eos_rebel_xs-review/ it might help solve your problem. The Rebel XS is a 10.1 meg camera which is a sizable digital file my thought are it could be possible the camera is still writing the file to the media card. If the internal flash was used then the processor is writing to the file and using power to recharge the flash. It could be that the battery is low and it's taking longer to recharge the flash giving the "Busy" warning The Rebel processor is pretty darn quick and it has a decent size buffer so the write speed shouldn't be giving you a problem unless you have put some type of slow media card in it. In that case it wouldn't matter how fast the camera is if the write speed of the card is low. Also the Rebel has several "quality" settings for pictures and the higher the quality the slower it will be to process but, the Rebels processor is darn quick so this shouldn't be the issue
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