I have a Canon PowerShot A590 and since about 2 weeks ago, it's been asking me to set the date and time nearly every day. Now, it's every time I turn the damned thing on! I've tried everything from going from rechargeable batteries to lithium ones.
I need help! Can anyone help me from wanting to throw the damned thing against a wall!
I love my camera - don't get me wrong - but it just spat out a date that's so ... um... weird that I can't fathom it. Just look at my photo for 2nd, February, 2012 and you'll understand what it's doing to me. It thinks I took a photo in 1980.
Found a website that says it has a separate watch battery (CR 1220) that must need to be replaced, under a rectangle panel by the batteries (?)
Hope that helps
These new cameras are made to break. They will likely tell you it will cost more to fix than a new one. Had this happen with my one year old JVC video camera a week ago. They'll just try to tell you the "latest stuff" is superior. I had a Powershot, and it died on the worst possible day (the afternoon I put a pet to sleep, and wanted one more pic of her). Sorry if this sounds mean, but it is the crap made in a certain country, which is not not Japan. Prepare for a wall bashing. As far as my JVC is concerned, I took the piece of junk apart and fixed it myself. It was a piece of sand in the focus mechanism. They wanted me to spend another $400. Crooks.
@chard Thank you! I didn't know that... Just looked at my manual and found that out... *blush* maybe should have read that before clicking away with it. But then, I didn't know they had date batteries; oh well. :)
@mozette Most electronics these days have a sort of secondary battery that is working all the time to keep the time and date working when you power down
I just called Dick Smith at Garden City and asked about a new battery and the guy there said he had plenty of the batteries I needed in stock and all I had to do was bring in my camera and pay $4.00 and he'd install the battery for me too for nicks... :D
Usually I learn something new like this when it is my camera yelling at me. Now when it does, I will know. Thanks for sharing this problem and the solution.
I know this sounds really, really dumb, but I have always wondered what that number was next to the AA batteries; but when I looked it up in the user's manual, I couldn't find it... not until today. And I could never get the damn thing out or to move because I thought if I tried, I might break something and it would cost a small fortune for me to get it fixed.... so when this happened, it was time to get in and really start looking at what the number was all about.
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