Won't open because of corroded batteries
This is serious business! If you value you camera, take it to a service centre for proper servicing.
SOURCE: Canon A75 Battery door
Never did it on an S1, but on other models it required removing the back face of the camera to access the battery doory hinge pin.
Examine your camera, and if this sounds feasible, remove all screws along the perimeter of the camera (keeping track of their sizes and where they came from, write it down with a crude drawing of their locations/sizes). Also look for screws in the battery compartment, and any visible screws behind flaps/doors. Once all perimeter screws are removed, you should be able to remove the back face of the camera by prying it open from the bottom. Once opened, the pin holding the battery door should be able to be slid out, enabling removal of the old door. Then in reverse slide the pin into the new door, and reassemble the camera and its screws.
SOURCE: Stuck battery/ScanDisk card
Unfortunately, you have to force the battery door (very carefully) to open it, and find what is wrong with it.
It is more likely that when closed the battery door, it was forced and it slided out of one guide channels.
You need to practice a little bit before to try it with force (genlty but with firm force), but the only way to do it is slide the button to open it, and at the same time slide to the side and pull the battery door, everything at the same time. Try it until you are able to open it.
Using any kind of tool (such a plastic pry tool, a small screwdriver, etc) to force will leave marks in the housing, and it's very possible that the plastic locking tabs will break, causing that you will open it, but unable to close properly again.
Best regards,
SOURCE: Canon PowerShot A540: battery door/memory stick
It depends on what's holding or keeping the door open. Is it the battery compartment, or the memory stick holder? Or is the door just sprung? Some problems require taking the camera apart. there is a metal flex piece in the memory compartment that could have gotten out of position, and is causing the problem. In this case, you might be able to take something to push it back into place deep inside the memory card holder. That's about all you can maybe try without taking the camera apart to see what's going on. If you don't have any success with that, you can try to take the camera apart, but it's kind of tedious, and you have to make sure you discharge the flash capacitor once you get to the insides (it won't hurt you, but will startle you, possible causing you to drop the camera and do further damage). You can short out the contacts of the capacitor with a screwdriver- be ready to hear a sharp pop when you do it, and do it 2 or 3 times, just to make sure all the charge is drained from the capacitor (their job is to store voltage). You can check with a camera shop on what they might charge, and have them look at it, but get an estimate first. Oftentimes, the cost of repair is high, and in that case, it's often better just to consider getting a new camera on sale. I've seen name brand 10.2 mp cameras going for $69 on sale, and that's usually cheaper than the cost of repair. Hope this helps, and it's something simple you can fix yourself. Good luck.
SOURCE: Canon Powershot SX10is All my action shots in
you should set it to a high shutter speed and f/stop also set your pictures to a RAW setting, if that made no sences let me know, and i'll say it abit more simple :)
SOURCE: my Canon powershot SX10is LCD
Press the Disp button near the bottom right of the LCD display housing.
You may need to press it twice to switch the display back to the LCD from the Viewfinder.
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