Canon warns of overheating cameras

Who is doing quality assurance these days? First laptops blowing up, then weak straps resulting in household damages, and now this -- overheating camera battery covers. While nowhere nearly as serious as the exploding laptop trend, Canon is warning owners of the PowerShot A530 and A540 that the cases' doors can become extremely hot. Additionally, there will be a significant decrease in performance, resulting in a lot less pics of the holidays than you would have hoped. Those folks realizing that they have an affected camera can have Canon replace it at no charge.

[Via Gear Factor]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2006 2:36PM]

The new trend: Consumer Electrics Beta.

Overheating or Exploding products?, well it's a beta, you knew that before you bought it.

[NHAnimator Posted Dec 27th 2006 2:54PM]

The fact that the springs were made by Sony has NOTHING ... I repeat NOTHING ... to do with it.

[patiwat Posted Dec 27th 2006 7:20PM]

Typical, from Canon, the E18 company (http://www.e18error.com)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2006 8:42PM]

i thank the gods of digital photography i chose the sd800is instead.

[tomgabriele Posted Dec 27th 2006 6:24PM]

i think this story would have been better if the title was "cannon warns of overheating cameras"

[pyehac Posted Dec 29th 2006 4:28PM]

I was about to buy that camera last night too! Luckily I didn't.