Dead Canon A75
A complete camera failure is usually caused by a power problem. Naturally, after checking the batteries, you should inspect the metal battery terminals inside the battery compartment.
Also, many cameras (including the Canon A-series) have a memory card door with a safety interlock lever (power switch) that is engaged only when the door is completely closed.
Finally, I have learned (from a Canon camera forum at Digital Camera Resource) that there is a small fuse soldered to an internal circuit board that sometimes fails for no apparent reason with several different "A" series Canon digital cameras.
The fuse story, with photos for those brave enough to void their warranty and open up the camera, begins inside this thread,
"Canon powershot A85 spare part needed!!!"
at this web link:
http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18151
You'll need to read a couple pages down to get the entire story.
Good luck.
My wife was taking some pics with our s2is when it suddenly died. She thought the batteries were dead, but new batteries didn't fix it. There is absolutely no power. It is not the e18 problem even though the lens is extended, for the screen won't even come on. The LED light will not light up when we try to power it on. I have replaced the batteries, put in the original 16mb sd card, wiggled everything I can, etc. It appears not to be the ccd problem either, since the people with that problem apparently have power. Any ideas?
Same as above. For no apparent reason, in the middle of shooting, it suddenly died. No e18, no simple blank screen like the ccd problem. There was simply no power. Fresh batteries did not fix it.
I have the same problem. My camera all-of-a-sudden died. I changed the batteries 3 times thinking that was the problem, but it's not. I love this camera and really don't want to replace it so please tell me what I can do.
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