Circular Spots There are circular spots on some of my images. What causes this?

LCD Display Panel/screen is damaged. Replacement of the LCD Panel is only solution of the problem. By the way, cost of LCD display may be higher than the cost of new TV. Check you local market for the price.

Check the back-light related components. Back-light inverter. Gopakumar Gopalan Google

Ghosting, spots, a series of circular colored hazy anomalies are called lens flair. It happens when a point of strong light source crosses the lens at an angle. Your pictures may have been in a room with a table light to one side or even an over head light. It will happen outdoors when you are shooting into the sun or an angle to the sun. Shooting a lighted Christmas tree will cause numerous possibilities of lens flair. The only fix is to shade the lens either with a lens hood your hand or in my case i sometimes use my hat. Pro cameras and their users fight with this problem on many occasions so it's not because you have an automatic camera.

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A really good stainless steel polish and some ultra fine sand paper or a sanding sponge should do the trick to remove the burnt spots. Use very light pressure in a circular motion to remove some of the surface area of the stainless steel to remove those stubborn spots. Then finish off the rest with the polish.

There is a spec of dirt that made it inside the camera and has landed itself on your image sensor.

If you take a picture and the image has a spot on it, it could be the screen. If you transfer it to your computer and the spot is in the same spot, its something on the image sensor. You would have to send it out for cleaning, and a new camera would be cheaper.

Youlikely have dust inside the optical block on the LCD panels. Cleaning the panels is a tricky job and just shooting compressed air into the block will only redistribute the dust. A qualified tech can disassemle the block and clean the panels

Dust is something that will need to be addressed. Get a Visual Dust brush and learn how to use it. You can help reduce dust by 1) changing lenses with the camera body facing down and 2) turning off your camera when changing lenses.

As is common in many compact digital cameras where the built-in flash is very close to the lens strange reflections can appear in images under certain conditions. Particulate matter in the air in front of the lens (between the camera and subject) such as water vapor (as in a cloudy day), smoke, dust or other items can reflect light directly into the lens causing neutral colored white/grey semi-transparent spots to appear in the image. In extreme examples there may be many of these spots in an image or there may be only one per image. Also, since these spots are completely random they will move or disappear from image to image. For example, if two images are shot consecutively with the same camera settings one image may have spots while the other is clean. To avoid these spots: When possible, avoid photographing in smoky, dust, or cloudy areas Do not use the camera's flash in locations such as above Use an external Speedlight flash if a flash is needed Review images on the camera and re-shoot if spots are visible Cleaning the lens will not have an effect on these spots, as the particles that cause this are not on the lens itself.