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When camera is turned on to either Camera or Memory, no image is seen either in the viewfinder or the LCD screen. A soft buzzing sound is heard.

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That soft buzzing sound seems to me would be the power supply inside the camera trying to operate something under a loaded condition like maybe ba stuck iris or lens or could even be those small caps (we call them Pan caps)inside your camera are starting to go bad. unless your quite good at micro electronics I would leave this one for the pros.. Contact the sony service depot in your owners manual.

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Apparently the vendor-supplied CCD image sensor used in this Canon digital camera may cause the following malfunction: When the product is used in recording or playback mode, the LCD screen and/or electronic viewfinder may exhibit either a distorted image or no image at all.

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Hi this is tech crazy

Based on the information you have provided, it appears that you may have
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2. Power the camera on to the Playback mode.

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