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Posted on Nov 19, 2009

No image on LCD screen, only irregular lines of varied coloring. When picture is snapped, it is of these lines--no image. Help. Details: I turned the camera to shooting mode but it does not display the image of what I want to shoot, but just a series of horizontal lines. If I take the shot, it shows the lines which were displayed on the LCD screen. If switched to playback mode, previously shot images show up fine. I checked the batteries; they were fine. I replaced them anyway, to no avail. Nothing about this in the manual and I need the camera now (of course.)

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I have the same problem and after doing research, I found this website.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PgComSmModDisplayAct&fcategoryid=225&modelid=13390&keycode=2112&id=29819

I called Canon & they are sending me a prepaid shipping label to fix the camera free of charge! Hope that helps! :)

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