Long Photo-Taking Hello, I have an S400 with a pretty fast memory card... It seems like its taking a longer time to take a photo than it used to? I dont know If i changed any settings that may be slowing this down. Basicly I turnt he camera on and sometimes I have to hold the capture button down for 3-5seconds before it will actualy snap the photo, Any suggestions??? I'm prety sure it hasnt always been this slow.. I got a new battery etc.. Thanks!

First of all, do not save any new file to camera's memory card.


Take out memory card, and connect it to computer using a card reader. You should see memory card shown as a drive letter (like H:) in Windows Explorer.
Download this camera photo recovery software
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/
Install and open the photo recovery software, select the memory card, and click 'Start' button.

The NV20 is a 12MP camera, and can fill up a 1GB card fast, especially if you accidentally take a video (thinking it was a photo). Have you checked to make sure that all your photos are actually "photos" (i.e. not videos)? Other troubleshooting steps for memory card problems may be found here.

First of all, do not save any new file to camera's memory card.

Take out memory card, and connect it to computer using a card reader. You should see memory card shown as a drive letter (like H:) in Windows Explorer.
Download this photo recovery software
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/
Install and open the photo recovery software, select the memory card, and click 'Start' button.

Hi,

I've got a A520 also, and I think theres a few reasons why it can take a while between shots.

1) When using the flash, flash needs several seconds to recharge, this is unavoidable.
2) Some SD cards are slower than others. Make sure you buy a fast one. Note too that a 2Gb or 4Gb card will slow down your camera between shots, compared to a smaller memory card, such as 1Gb, or 512mb.
3) If using a slow shutter speed, such as 10 or 15 seconds, I've found it takes longer to take the next photo. This is unavoidable.

4) You could lower the resolution of the photos you're taking, this will enable you to take photos faster, and may still be good enough for applications such as Facebook, ect.

5) Another trick is to use the multiple shots option. For some reason you can take more photos more quickly than if you manually take each photo. Flash, and slow shutter speeds may still slow down the camera, if used.

Hope these hints help!

This may be a camera rather than a card problem, you need to isolate the issue.

1) If you have another card, take a photo and check, if the photo is good then you've a card problem. If the photo is like the others you've got a camera problem.

2) If you don't have another card, you can try taking out your current card and taking a photo, this should store on you camera's internal memory. If that's poor, you've got a camera problem.

3) All of these photo's should be transfered to a pc for checking. If they're poor on you camera and good on the PC, it's probably you camera LCD thats got a problem.

In your manual you will find how to change the display format (picture only, histogram, etc.). The time it's taking to display your image "might" be that your memory card is getting quite full and you're shooting large images. I shoot a D80 and it uses an SD card. Make sure you but a fast memory card if your camera does not buffer the inage before writing it to your memory card.

If you want to take lower resolution photos, it's pretty simple.

Go into the Menu on your camera, and look for "Quality".
Canon does "Large" "Medium" or "Small", if you change to "Small", you'll fit more images on your memory card.

However, "small" will make the photos not look as good as "large", keep that in mind.

Go to this site and try emailing them: www.camerasandparts.com They just service the Canon Powershot cameras and they are wonderful for help with these. They do excellent work and are about half the price of Canon. Hope that helps, best of luck with the problem.

I found that a large memory card will make the "warm up" time longer. If you use a smaller memory card, this will not be the case.

The only two things you can do to/for a digital camera is change batteries and change memory card. If your rechargeable batteries have been in use for a long time, they may be dying. You could try new rechargeable batteries. Your camera uses Smart Media which was never particularly fast. It too could be dying. Try a new memory card. If you are shooting in TIFF format, that could explain the lengthened time between shots.