Canon cameras

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with Canon cameras, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

App constantly disconnects, requires phone to lose other wifi, and is very slow2024-05-25
Toggle labels show state ambiguously, so users can't tell what tapping will do2024-01-29
Webcam utility won't work with the camera despite other tools working2023-05-26
Cryptic settings are hard to remember and manual mode causes missed shots2023-03-22
Too many menus and settings to navigate, so shots get missed2023-03-08
GPS takes 2-10 minutes to acquire location, so some photos lack geotags2022-01-15
Keeps getting led in circles, can't find how to move the globe, autoplay sounds ignore mute2021-01-15
Autofocus reliably focuses on the wrong thing and is slow2020-12-21
Small body leaves no room for buttons, so settings are hard to adjust during video shoots2020-11-29
Software is primitive and unusable after nearly twenty years2020-08-18
Camera body is uncomfortable or awkward to hold and operate2020-06-03
Wifi hot spot and phone preview are user unfriendly and a pain to use2019-09-04
Camera blows out highlights badly, forcing constant exposure compensation adjustments2019-08-14
Can't turn off the on-screen overlay and red dot for clean HDMI output2019-02-18
Manual mode requires pressing a button before the shared dial changes shutter speed2017-09-27
Can't find the buttons the user wants while shooting on a Rebel2017-09-27
Camera's WiFi is so slow and terrible to use it is effectively useless2017-09-27
GPS takes about 30 minutes to get a fix, making it practically unusable2017-09-27
Couldn't tell which of OK or Cancel was active, so chose wrong and formatted the card2015-07-30