tee hee, not to laugh AT you, but to invite you to laugh with me. Digital cameras, especially entry level digital camera will last about a year or two max. This is not only from my personal experience, but also from a friend of mine who owns two camera stores and they are authorized dealers for Pentax, Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Sigma. It's planned obsolesence.
My Fuji F10 (by all means not an entry level P&S) lasted only 11 months and it took them 2 months to "repair" it (they "repaired" it so well it got back as F30 when I received it from Fuji). My Fuji A200 (that's an entry level P&S) lasted only 13 months, 1 month out of warranty, Fuji told me that I'm S.O.L.). It doesn't stop me from using Fuji, though. I still use Fuji A345 and Fuji F30.
I also strongly recommend Fuji S5200. It's a great camera for the money.
PS: That Canon camera, it doesn't happen to be an Elph 490Z APS? If it is indeed the Elph 490Z APS, I also had that camera and had that same problem after almost 2 years of usage.
