Guess I'm the new guy here Been reading the review for most of the summer trying to find the right camera to suit my needs.

One of my cameras is a sg550. I've had it for three or so years and last spring it quit taking pictures. Sent it back and had it repaired (new board...$90). After two weeks, it quit taking pictures at night. Well, just every other picture was black. I emailed them and they told me it was a writing problem to try different cards. I did and it didn't make a difference, so they said to send it back to them. Not really using the camera, I gave up on getting it repaired until I ran across the forum on this site. I found that it was probably a battery issue and got the camera out of the drawer. Put new batteries in and it works good as new....Almost.

Now when I plug the remote in, it beeps three times and the backlight on the remote lights up. There are some verticle lines on the remote sometimes and nothing else. The camera is taking pictures fine at the setups I had when the remote was actually working.

Do you guys thing buying a new remote would fix this or is it possibly a problem with the camera? Like I said, with the new batteries, the camera takes both night and day pictures great, just can't do anything with the remote....Thanks TIA.

It could be the remote (or cable) or that the port where the remote plugs in and your remote just are not fitting tightly (not sure on that one). If there is a way you could work a deal where they send you a remote to try and if it does not fix the issue allow you to return it for no charge, I would do that.

On our sg550, when the battery is low it will begin to miss firing the led array here and there (producing black photos) until it just doesn ot fire at all, even though day time photos still look good. I would call this normal for the SG550.

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Thanks for the quick response. I have some buddies that I talked into getting this camera and I am going to try their remote on Monday and see if it works. The port on the camera looks "dirty". Is there a way to clean it? I didn't notice it until I got it in better light. That could very well be the problem also I guess. I've plugged it in and unplugged it about 50 times now and when I turn the camera on, the remote works for just a second and then goes blank.

When they repaired the camera the first time, they told me on the phone that after the repair it would have a usb style port for the remote. It came back with the same type of port that it originally had.

Thanks again.