Odds are it is just the LCD then and your images are unaffected. It will be annoying, but its still usable while you save. If it had an optical viewfinder, you should be able to get by just fine. If not you will have to use it to compose, but you will have to have the mental picture of what you have instead of looking. Just like the old film days, you can get good results without an immediate look. Canon has an 800 number that has been very good to me when I have called. They may have some way to reset, ect or other ideas. I wouldn't spend much fixing a camera though from 2008. Too many advances since to do that.
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Subject: Re: Canon PowerShot
From: Marilyn <marilyn160@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, March 25, 2011 7:24 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Hi Mark and Lea,I did replace the media card and recharged the battery. When downloading the photos to the computer the flaws do not show.I do think I can continue to use this camera until I save up for a new one and I had a feeling it was the LCD screen. I think thatâs what it is.Thank you both for your help and suggestions; I appreciate them very much.Marilyn
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www.itstoughgrowingup.comAgreed it could just be the camera lcd screen but have you, by chance, tried a new media card?I would at least give it a shot before pitching in the towel.LeaOn Mar 25, 2011, at 4:01 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Two possibilities that come to mind. First do the images when viewed on a computer or something other than the camera have the same problems? If so its likely the LCD screen and if you can live with it, its not affecting the final product. It would get really annoying, but it would work. IF you see the same problems when you look at it on something else, I'd guess it was a sensor and if you are old enough to remember Dandy Don on Monday Night Football, that's what I sing. Either way Id be saving for a new camera pretty quickly.-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Canon PowerShot
From: Marilyn <marilyn160@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, March 25, 2011 12:18 pm
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My Canon PowerShot SD870IS Digital Elph has a fingerprint sized dark grey spot on the viewing screen in the top center 1/3 of the screen. There is also a dark grey line about 3/4 of an inch long in the upper right hand corner of the viewing screen.Also, when shooting indoors there are purple specks (it looks like dozens of little ants are running around my screen) that show up. I bought the camera in 2008, brand new. Any suggestions as to what is wrong, or is it just time to replace it?Marilyn
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