I want to click pics at night but even with its flash on .... pic quality is nt so good ................ is there any night mode function on Canon PowerShot SX130 IS camera ......if yes please tell me where can i find this function ..... i hv tried every thing .....

This happends due to high noise. Select night mode from the camera and turn off your flash. This hels in getting clearer pictures

Hi,

Are you taking pics on auto mode or manual?

there are 2 ways.
one is to get a memory card having a very high writing speed. They are classified as Class 1,2,3,4,5,6. An ultra class 6 card will do fine.
Second is to compromise on the photo quality. Keep the photo size low. suppose if your camera can take 10mp shots. You can customize it to 5mp. File size becomes slow and so good writing speed.
During night times photos with flash takes some time to shoot. That depends upon the camera's processing speed.

I don't know where you are. In the UK, I think I would have tried to take this back to the vendor for a replacement or refund early on (in the first year of ownership), but in other countries your rights may be different. Two years on is a bit late to make a warranty claim or return as faulty. Perhaps Panasonic's offer to exchange the camera may be your best option.

If you perform a Google search on the camera make and model you will find a number of consumer reviews, written by ordinary owners, as well as reviews by professionals. This may help you decide whether the model has problems or it is just the one you own.

Hi. Turn on the camera and go into the menu and find the reset function. Reset it. That may solve your problem. If it does not, you could go for a repair or a replacement. Some shops will give you a free estimate. Joe

4 thumbs up please. ty

earlier i posted solution in similary problem. maybe help you this.

solution is good batteries, Ni-Mh or Lithium, rechargeable only not alkaline. but...problem is how long you watch pictures on lcd display or how much is flash in use. if always by shooting pics used flash that means that you can with best batteries 30, 20 or less pics shooted. and of course, if you connect camera with pc, how long is cam on? just transfer pics on pc and turn the camera off. the best solution is use the card reader for pics transfering.
if is flash off, it's possible to shot 120-150 pics with Ni-Mh. with lithium i don't know, maybe 500 pics. don't use camera lcd for analysing pics it's just there for short preview.
with alkaline batt., very low quality, i shot 30 pics without flash.

i shot also very good pics at night without flash. nikon coolpix L15 can do that but you must have more praxis. alkaline batteries shooting!
after 3 pictures on display is message: warning! the battery is exhausted. what you can do? turn the camera off. wait about 10 minutes. turn the camera on, you can shot 3 or 5 pictures and than turn your camera off again.
you can repeat this few times and you be lucky if you 30 pics captured:)
REMEMBER: all this goes without camera flash!!!
flash and every zooming use more battery power! and that was all magic:).

remove the battery and reinsert and set all the settings again.and try first,

try to change the settings of your camera, set it to highest picture quality. Also light settings make abig difference to digital cameras. They can click excellent pics in daylight but suffer in the nighttime. You can use the night mode settings to take pics at night to solve this problem to sme extent.
I am one of the extremely satisfied users of the nokia 6233 phone and it's camera, I have clicked some awsome pics using it.

RK.

go to function and change pic size to wide or it shows a w -then you will see in main menu highlight of time and date stamp-canon can only do date and/or time in a certain size pic-rember it's a lower quality resolution than normal-change pic size first at bottom of function menu then go to main menu

What type of batteries did you buy?

For digital cameras, you want to use batteries with high milliamp hour (mah) rating: "2500 mah" if they are rechargeable.

If you bought regular batteries, you want to use good quality. Look for the "e2" or "better for digital equipment" type.

Does the camera have a DC power plug option? Try taking pictures with it plugged in if it does. If it still malfunctions with power right from the wall, then you bought a bad camera.