Canon Ixus 430 becomes hot

[xenotex]

I have bought a Canon Ixus 430 camera, but when I'm making photos, it becomes hot. The place isnear the battery? Must it be like this? Or are there some orther problems - like battery is failured?

[Jon]

How hot? just warm, or uncomfortably so? It shouldn't get uncomfortably warm under normal operation, but if you're pushing it (a lot of pictures very fast, or a lot of flash pictures at high output and as fast as possible) this may happen. If the terminals are dirty/oxidized, the increased resistance acould also cause excessive heating. Try polishing them (camera and battery if possible) with a soft cloth ort tissue.

[xenotex]

Let's say it becomes very warm, when I'm making 20 shots in 2 minutes. Should it be so? :?:

[Jon]

With flash and LCD operating? What happens if you use the optical finder only and don't need flash? Are you using the Canon battery? 6 sec/shot for 20 may be more than Canon expects, but they claim to have built protection against overheating into the battery. If there's a battery problem, you might also see overheating when charging from a mostly-discharged state. Somewhere, they've listed what they consider their conditions for battery-life testing, which will give you an idea of what they consider a reasonable work load, but I'm not able to locate it at the moment.

[Saudidave]

I have had an an IXUS 400, which is basically the same camera ,for over a year now. That gets very hot too, so don't worry about it, just enjoy it. great camera!

[Perfect_10]

My S400 also gets hot (around the battery and the LCD) .. I consider it normal .. power has to go somewhere

[Liang]

IXUS 400 has a metal body (which is heat conductor) so you feel it become warm very quickly.