I just retired (read disposed of) my Canon S2IS for the dreaded E18 error after 3 years of great service. I had babied that camera, and kept it clean, but one day the error just showed up, no warning signs. I did exhaustive research on the Net, and tried everything suggested, but to no avail. I have been a Canon user for decades (AE-1, A-1, EOS) but I'm very disappointed in Canon's non-response on this engineering flaw, which is seemingly widespread across many model types.

I think my next camera will be a Nikon...

Dave Peterson
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