i just bought a refurbished canon A590digital 8.0 meg, 4x optical zoom, LCD display screen cameravia eBay. after only shooting 40 shots,some of them using flash (like 3 or 4 shotsout of 40), i found the camera showedbattery used up sign. then, it refusedto shoot any more. i checked the voltageof the batteries with my old VOM. the batteries were not used up. the meter readthey still had 1.35 out of 1.5 volts.i'm just disappointed that the camera can't use up the rest of the battery charges. 1.35v is to me, nearly still full! is something wrong with the camera?i remember when i had canon A550 digitalwith the same casing, different color,but of 7.1 meg pixel. the A550 was lostat a cafe. the older camera shot many manypictures B4 it registered low batterycharge. but then, after about 7 months,the A550 acted the same as my current one.it started to report low bat charge andit's not even low, shot only fewer shots.i remember re-inserting and messing aroundwith the camera's metal contact tabs forthe batteries helped to shoot more shots.is something wrong with the canon modelitself? i used both non-rechargable andre-chargeable batteries with the sameproblems.satoshi nakamototemple city, calif
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