Very good possibility that the batteries you took out were corroded and left a black residue on the contacts in the camera at least it has some power getting through to signal the low battery. The battery door will most likely be not to bad but take a light and look down inside and see what the others look like. Long cotton tipped swabs with alcohol on it is a good start, then what I use is a little bit of sand paper formed around the eraser end of a pencil to sand off the contacts be gentle you don't want to bend or displace them. Once clean use the swab on it again and try the batteries make sure the batteries are good first. Another thing you might have problems with is the internal battery, it's something like a watch battery it keeps the internal clock ticking so to speak.
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I didn't leave batteries sitting in the camera, so there wasn't any corrosion. I cleaned it just to be sure. Still no dice. I guess I will have the internal battery checked next! Thanks!
Hi, I went back into the manual again to see if there was something else that could have deteriorated from sitting and still cam back to the battery contact points. Also while doing this I found that if your camera is not equipped with the data back then it doesn't have an internal battery. It's powered by Two CR123A batteries (of course you knew that) and as long as they are new then in theory they should be okay for power.
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There is nothing to loose if you haven't loaded film so why not shift everything into manual mode. ISO at 100 shutter speed at say 1/125 with an aperture of F8 shift the lens to manual focus and trip the shutter a few times and listen to the sound. Set the shutter speed at 1/250 and trip the shutter a few more times listen, did the speed increase? Did the battery level change? What happens to cameras that sit is they begine to seize up, a little condensation and some stuff begins to corrode and cause mechanical and electrical problems. Sometime you can put the camera to work and it comes back to life other times it needs a trip to the repair shop. If the camera is still opeating then set the shutter speed at 1/1000 then to the top and back down again to 1/125 listen to hear if the shutter is quickening and slowing down. If you go through all this and the battery is still showing low it will come around if you can't get through this test then it's service time. Cheers have a good evening
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Great, you are on the way again, the more you use it the better it will be. The Rebel G was and still is a great lightweight camera with all the right functions so loader up and go take some great photo's Cheers thanks for the thumbs up and testimonial ;-)
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Cleaning the contacts is a good idea, but never use anything sharp, like sand paper. You really will clean them, but also speed up the corrosion process, because the plating of gold to rhodium will come of to.
If you can't clean them without sand paper, be aware to clean the contacts on a regular bases.
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