When I turn on the camera, I see a black screen with several icons in white: a camera in the upper left corner, ISO?HI, a zig-zag arrow, a rectangle and a small camera with an arrow in the upper left corner, 102 in the bottom right corner and L, 1/4 of a circle and a rectangle with an eye in the center in the bottom left corner. After a minute, the screen goes black. I am able to scroll through the pictures I have already taken, but I can't take new pictures.
I turned mine on today and out of no where it worked?!
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Very odd... sounds like the camera is just in a power save mode and should still work.
Try pressing the "Disp" button, does the LCD turn on? Press it again after a second.. does it all now turn off? Press it once more and the LCD should turn on again.
If this doesn't work, then one of two things is most likely wrong. Your CCD is bad, or the aperture in the lens is stuck closed. Either problem requires the lens to be replaced, and no camera shop or store will do it for less than $150-200.
If the aperture is stuck no light is getting in the lens so there is nothing for the camera to record, but you can still see the menus and old pictures just fine. If the CCD is bad, the light is getting in but the camera can't convert it to a digital signal that it can record.. so once again you can still see the menus and old pictures but you can't take any new ones.
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Thomas
Amazingly, I have the same problem. And whats more.. Canon wont assume responsibility for it. Whats even worse is that since i bought the camera from Canada and now I am in India the warranty isn't valid even though the camera is hardly two month old.
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yes, I am having the same problem with my canon ixus 70, which i bought 14 months ago (damn, out of warranty by a few weeks!). I can take movies, but no stills. i can look at old stills but it won't let me take new ones. and i can't see an image in the stills capture mode - so it will click away and even flash, but doesn't seem to take a photo. i have emailed canon, and will let you know their response. it seems to be a common problem and their responses to people vary from helpfully offering free repairs or replacements even out of warranty, to not really dealign with it. we shall see!
liz lopez, melbourne, australia
I just bought the powershot sd750 and i am having this problem also. I can scroll through old pictures and videos but cannot take any new.
Amazingly, I have the same problem. And whats more.. Canon wont assume responsibility for it. Whats even worse is that since i bought the camera from US and now I am in India the warranty isn't valid even though the camera is hardly a month old. talk about being a global company. Well, about the solution, the service centre people have told me that the internal lens shutter does not open and thats why the screen appears as a black screen since no light reaches the lens. Hoping to get it fixed, but whats hurting is that i have to shell out money for repairing a new camera !!!!!
screen is black and i can't take pictures, was working fine one minute and the next a black screen i can still take pictures of the black screen and i can view the pictures that were on it before, i think canon needs to take some responsibilty her i'v only had this camera since July and maybe used it t times i don't even think i've taken 50 pictures and thats streghing it.
Amazingly, I have the same problem. And whats more.. Canon wont assume responsibility for it. Whats even worse is that since i bought the camera from canada and now I am in India the warranty isn't valid even though the camera is hardly a month old. talk about being a global company. Well, about the solution.
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