Night pictures do not come out

Pictures probably look black because there is no light at night. Camera need light to take photographs.

Mary,First check to ensure that your camera is in automatic mode, and not in one of its manual modes. For example, shooting in a night scene mode in daylight could cause these symptoms. But if you are in auto, a stuck shutter is another common failure mode for digital cameras. The symptoms of a stuck or "sticky" shutter are very similar to CCD image sensor failure. The camera may take black pictures (for shutter stuck closed), or the pictures may be very bright and overexposed, sometimes with lines, especially when taken outdoors (for shutter stuck open).
To confirm a stuck shutter, put the camera in any mode other than "Auto", and turn the flash OFF (you don't want to blind yourself for the next step). Next look down the lens and take a picture. You should see a tiny flicker in the center of the lens as the shutter opens and closes. If no movement is seen, then you likely have a stuck shutter. If so, please see this link for further info and a simple fix that may help.

Hi mmcgee6,

You need to check the settings in the camera , as to whether it's selected on night mode or not , when you use the camera at night , and particularly if the light is not as bright as day light.

There should not be any problem with the night shoots from the camera if there is no problem in the day , it's just the settings that needs to be changed to night mode.

Also a good idea would be to set the flash settings on Auto instead of Off , or other settings , this will adjust the camera as per the environment in which you are clicking your pictures.

Hope this helps ....:)

This is happening due to your wrong settings..
So first you rest your camera to factory defaults... and confirmed that night mode is off for daylight picture...
Take photo on Auto mode... and see the result.... If still not satisfied then camera get serviced...

At night, the shutter stays open longer to allow in more light...also allowing you to move the camera causing the blurry pics. Use a tripod if necessary.

It looks like you took pictures on Manual mode and didn’t set the Exposure Compensation and Shutter speed properly. If you can get good pictures on Auto mode, your camera is ok.

have you tried it with the led flash mode

Hi maria,

first how did you take a picutre during daytime ? try the auto setting on the camera , perhaps you have it now in the night mode and that may cause your problem

U might need to change the mode in which u are taking the pics. Try setting it to Auto mode.

Probably you are using the M mode or manual mode for taking the pictures. this shouldn't happen in Auto mode. The exposure time is set to maximum and the camera behaves as it shoot during the completely dark environment - trying to stay "open" to absorb as much light as it needed for the picture. If you are trying it during the night you will be more satisfied with the result - 30 seconds of "capturing" on the screen, a tripod and you are goimg to have exellent night shot. I had the same problem, just because I haven'got read the manual for the camera first. My advise is to check in the manual what is written for the "M" mode. Hope that I help.