Earthlight - how does your Ixus treat its batteries? Whilst we have film SLRs, we also have a couple og Ixus 300's and an Olympus AZ-1 "glovebox" cameras that are great for that "quick - there it is!" type of photography. We used to use our first Ixus a lot until it started chewing through batteries at an enourmous rate - like gone in 6 photos! I considered taking it in for repair, nut found that it was cheaper to buy another older model from eBay. That worked for a while too, and seemed to be OK. All of a sudden it started to munch batteries as well. I started to suspect the batteries themselves as well as the charger - but we bought replacements that do the same thing even when chargers are changed. I'm not sure what to do next - junk them?
I'm stumped. We then bought the Olympus and it's been brilliant ever since. The only thing is that it has vertically-stacked internal optics so that there is no protruding lens as such. This makes it difficult to use on the telescope as the cup of the eyepiece doesn't have a natural place to mate with the camera. It's great as a camera though as the rear display is 2.5" - and much clearer than the Ixus.
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