L took some pictures last night and then decided to put some into black and white. l pressed the format option and all of a sudden all the pictures disappeared. the camera is a hitachi hdc 86IE or is it hdc 861E. please help lost some valuable pictures.

If the format of color system such as PAL/SECAM etc. is not same as that of telecast, you will get picture in black and white.

There's nothing wrong. The blinking areas are blown-out highlights. These are the portions of your picture that the camera thinks are overexposed.
While viewing the picture, press cursor-up/down to cycle through the different views of your picture.

If still under warranty, I would suggest going that way as this is a bad matrix driver....

It's a setting.
Slide open the cover
Press the F key
Press the down 'cursor' key twice
Press the right 'cursor' key
Select STD or 'C' options for color pictures

i would save your pictures on to a disc, then re-format the card.

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hi! my sister-in-law gave me a MD853 camera last week from Canada. I used it over the weekend when we went on a trip and the pictures and videos i took were great. Last night, my daughter took a picture of me and when she took a picture of her brother, there was only white on the screen...like a moving white sheet with colored edges. I thought she destroyed it or something. I tried to use it but now the screen is all black...last night only the video worked but this morning everything is black. The other programs in the camera works so i suspect the problem must be in the lens. I'm in the Philippines and if I send it back to Canada for repairs it would just take a long time and it will be expensive to send it back. What can I do? I really love this camera... help!!!

Video format error. change pal or ntsc and try

When you recieve a "Card Error" or "Card Not Initialized" message, this indicates that your memory may be temporarily corrupted. This can be due to not formatting your memory card on a consistent basis. Most consumers will use the "delete all" feature and continue to take pictures. By doing this, the file format of the card may become unstable.

We recommend formatting your memory card in your camera after saving the images from your previous shooting session. Once a memory card is formatted, the images will not be recoverable.

i just got mine today, and the batteries were dead withtin a couple of hours, so yes. mines has decided to go black, it was fun while it lasted,, theres £90 ill never see again