Sounds like your screen is toast and time to find a new camera. They are not cost-effective to replace on a lower-cost camera.
SOURCE: Camera will take picture, but the picture is coming out black!!!! Help Please!!!
Dear vera11:
The symptoms you're describing sound like a classic case of having a faiiled CCD image sensor.
First try pressing the display (DISP) button on the back of your camera several times to see if your image returns at any time. One of the three display modes is "off" to preserve battery life. Your problem may be as simple as inadvertently pressing this button into the off mode.
If that doesn't work, try doing a reset and then removing your batteries from the camera for a few minutes, reinstalling them and turning the camera on to test the LCD screen.
If your screen is still black, but you can clearly see pictures taken previous to the problem, and you can clearly see the menu system when you press the MENU button, then you likely have a CCD sensor problem. Contact Canon Tech Support at 1-800-828-4040 to have the camera repaired.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
HeavyDLB
SOURCE: Camera turns on, but LCD screen is black
I had this problem with an old camera of my brothers (he got a new one because he believed it to have become a dud). I fixed it a few hours ago, it was a CCD Flex problem (this here is an example of a CCD Flex which I found via google images: http://irfu.cea.fr/Sap/Phys/Sap/Activites/Projets/Megacam/Electronic/images/FlexPlie.jpg). Its a relatively nice camera to open up, this Panasonic Lumix, and it is well made except for the terrible malfunction of the camera because of this CCD Flex.
If you're confident of fixing it (I'd had no real experience fixing cameras before, though have much experience fixing computers and a little circuiting experience) then open it all up, you have to get the front casing off to make it easiest to fix so you must find all the screws to unscrew (including the ones attaching the zoomy-lens-thing to the front casing, hidden under the main circuit board). Then find what is connecting the zoomy-lens-thing to the circuit board (there should be two CCD Flex things (see above for a picture) and they were both orange on mine. I found that the problem was with one of them, the one that has plastic over it. I replaced the double-sided tape on the plastic with new double-sided tape, and took out the black thing holding the CCD Flex into the circuit board and then put the black thing back in whilst putting the CCD Flex back in, pushed it as far as it would go, then put the plastic back onto the circuit board via the double sided tape.
It sounds confusing when you read it, but thats because you haven't seen the inside of this camera yet ;) It'll make perfect sense when you do, and you'll be thinking that you're a hero for fixing this after you've done it. It took me 2 hours roughly, which included getting stuck a few times putting it back together, and finding the problem in the first place. Then I felt all tingly, like I was granted a mass amount of luck, once I turned the thing on and it was a picture straight away.
IF, however, it appears to be the other CCD Flex thats the problem, you should push it in properly, its a much nicer version than the one I had to tamper with.
Ohh, to start off with, you should check that the simple fix written on here actually works (its not really a fix, but a painkiller..) of pushing the bottom of the lens upwards. For me I pushed the lens up and left slightly, and it would come up with picture, or at least flicker a lot (it was a little temperamental), so I decided to fix it properly. If it doesn't flicker at least a little bit when you're fiddling with the lens, then you've probably got a different problem.
The end.
SOURCE: When I take a picture, the display and picture are black.
The shutter is jammed shut, lens unit needs to be serviced.
SOURCE: Panasonic Lumix DMC FX12
HI,
It's impossible to turn the camera off. Only way is take out the battery.
No button warks, but I can change the shooting mode and turn playback, but I can't change the image in playback mode.
Please, help me to solve this problem.
I think, the camera needs to be restarted, but how to do that?
Thanks a lot.
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