Canon PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera "black view finder" Questions

view finder / LCD monitor black out Hi I have a canon S1 IS Power shot. Recently I've found a peculiar problem with the LCD monitor/view finder. When i view through the LCD monitor or the view finder,

Speck inside view finder When looking thru the view finder the lower left quadrant contains a black image Replace lens

...view finder, but the back ground is all black. It does appear to have a gray area somewhere to the left of the little rectangle box in the view finder. I just had this problem! And the answer is ...

...view finder and the display, you have to press the DISP. button several times and look what happens in Shooting mode and what in Playback mode. If only the display will come on, and the viewfinder ...

...black but i can see on the led screen and i can switch the display to he view finder and see it fine , so is the viewfinder broken ? It is not likely the view finder is broken, because it is deep ...

black view finder once the camera is on, I cannot see an image thru the view finder, the screen is black. The battery is good and completely charged. This sounds like it might be a defective CCD ...

...view finder is black. When viewing pictures pictures previously taken, they are show on the view finder. Why is it black in this mode? A stuck shutter is another common failure mode for digital ...

...up on the botton of the view finder but the viewfinder is 90 black with a bit of blur. Is this the censor or a mirror...? Is this fixable and at what approximate cost? Would it be cheaper to

black and if I look through the view finder I still can't see anything. I did try new batteries and made sure the settings were right. Does anyone have an idea on what this could be? Or how to fix it?

...black on the screen and view finder but when I download the memory card the pictures are there? This may seem silly, but is it possible that you're accidentally turning the camera on to camera mode ...