On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:56:37 -0500, "Dallas"
wrote:

After 4 years of bulletproof service, my Canon digital camera has gone
goofy.

On July 21st it shot a few "purple shots":
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/IMG_2515.jpg

On July 26th, it was normal again.

Then on Aug 29th, it went psychedelic and never came back:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...s/IMG_2531.jpg
(this is a photo of a guitar)

The day it happened, I took the camera out of a nice air-conditioned house
and into the usual 95°Texas summer day so I'm wondering if condensation
hosed the CCD or something. I find the fact that it "healed itself" once
encouraging, but after several days there's no improvement.

Given that it's only a $200 camera, I'm guessing it wouldn't be worth it to
send it to Canon's service facility. If it's really hosed, I figure I might
as well open it up and see if there's anything obviously wrong inside.

Any ideas here as to what it might be?

Yep. See:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PgComSmModDisplayAct&keycode=2112&f categoryid=221&modelid=8776
Canon will fix it for free.

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