Viewing screen goes all white and mode select flashes on
Recently, my Sony W1 started acting up. After turning the camera on, the view screen would sometimes go all White, or the graphic showing which picture-taking mode I was in would flash on, as if I were changing the mode, even if when I wasn't touching it, or the shutter release button.
This happened occasionally, but began increasing in frequency during our vacation. We used the camera a lot. sometimes it would correct it's self, sometimes we would have to turn it off and on a few times.
Any ideas?
Thanks, none of the problem/solutions mentioned the additional issue of the "mode" display. Makes me wonder if it is more than a loose screen connection...Thanks, none of the problem/solutions mentioned the additional issue of the "mode" display. Makes me wonder if it is more than a loose screen connection...
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I wasn't touching it, or the shutter release button. This happened occasionally, but began increasing in frequency during our vacation. We used the camera a lot.
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This seems to be a commonn problem for Sony and has been addressed several times in this forum:
http://www.fixya.com/support/t119207-view_finder
Please read all the solutions - basically, looks like the problem is with a loose connection and the fixes range from cleaning the contacts to giving a whack to the camera!
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Yes it's a sony repair job, but theres a lot of people who have resorted to the following methods before they will part with $200 or so, the camera models are different but the method is the same :-
http://www.fixya.com/support/t129748-sony_cybershot_dsc_s50_not_focusing
http://www.fewin.com/sony/sony.htm
I found an online manual for your camera. Page 84 talks about the USB Mode Normal with the 4 dots underneath. It also show a troubleshooting area for this and it is on page 96. Hopefully this will get your camera working right again. Here is the link to the pdf manual. http://www.docs.sony.com/release/DSCW1.pdf
This sounds like what started happening with my camera a few weeks ago. I found that turning the LCD screen off during picture-taking allows me to take pictures. I then have to go into review mode to look at the pictures I took using the LCD screen.
Definitely not a great fix. I'm trying to locate a firmware upgrade that may solve it.
needs replacement! In warranty no problem, otherwise you will have to pay maybe not too much. On your own you may try to disassemble it and try cleaning the contact brushes and metal stripes. Problem may be caused by dirt.
Could be dust reflecting the flash. Water droplets also do it. Here's an example from an indoor trials where they had little RC cars on a dirt track next to the trials. The RC cars kicked up dust. The flash just bounced off the particles. This is an 828 with a Metz flash with a pocket bounce/diffuser on top. With the smaller camera with the flash more on axis of the lens the effect will be more pronounced since closer dust particles will be illuminated.
There is a well documented problem with the W1 (and its brother, the P100).
If you are shooting in good light, you will have no problem.
If you are shooting in low light or flash, you will encounter various degrees of blurred photos.
Unlike most cameras, the W1 has only two f-stops (f2.8 and f5.2). So the camera must select one or the other (nothing in between).
The firmware in the camera will try to select f5.2 as long as it can in low light. This results in a slow shutter speed. And with flash you usually end up with a shutter speed of 1/40th of a second.
A slow shutter speed is the cause of the blurred photos. If you can hold the camera perfectly still under low light conditins (and flash) you will get good photos. If you use the cameras manual mode and manually select a faster shutter speed you will get good photos.
It appears that Sony could fix the problem with a firmware change so that the camera made better use of the ISO settings along with the f-stop selections.
However, they have not done so.
Thanks, none of the problem/solutions mentioned the additional issue of the "mode" display. Makes me wonder if it is more than a loose screen connection...
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