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Old April 28th, 2008, 12:38 AM   #1
 
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A few months ago my camera started acting up. The view on the LCD would sometimes be distorted. Sometimes the picture itself would come out fine, sometimes not. Now its messed up about 60% of the time. Any idea whats wrong?
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The camera is fine, but you should stop taking LSD.
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yeah, I would say don't hide your LSD in the battery compartment! or at least take it out before you send it back for repair images/smilies/wink.gif
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Looks similar to this thread.

Whatever it is, seems to be contagious.
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that looks worse than mine lol! you can tell your camera uses a CCD chip coz of how the streaks/smears go down the picture in columns....thats how they read the voltages off, by making the charges all shuffle along to the bottom one by one to be read off.

something in that process is obviously fucked

i would of sent this to get repaired the moment i seen it instead of waiting a few months. u still in warranty?
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Thanks for the replies.
The warranty expired a long time ago - I've had this camera since 02 or so images/smilies/sad.gif Luckily I am about to get a new one anyways... DSLR here I come
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Figured I'd post some more psychadelic pictures for you to enjoy

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I think you might be onto something here. Whatever you do, don't throw out the camera! Keep using it to take these trippy abstract shots. images/smilies/smile.gif
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haha, Im calling canon tomorrow to see if I can get it fixed
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