Horizontal lines on every picture taken, worse in poor light, tried removing memory card and also I reset and formatted the camera. No improvement..

hi there reset the camera then format the memory card & turn off for 5 minutes. After that turn on with empty memory card 7 let me know the result.

did software update
did firmware update
did memory card format
I think it helped.
mine use to take good pix then got blurry.
seems to be better but just did it all and have only taken sample pix.

OK, I read that sometimes the horizontal lines in some cameras comes from the external memory contacts being dirty. If your camera doesn't have an external memory card, then it's got to be an internal board anomaly.

Under FAQ's I did not see a reference to horizontal lines.

select 'RESET' in the 'SETUP' menu it says in the troubleshooting section of the manual.

http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/support/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/How-To-Guides/model.DMC-TZ1S.H#ts

If cleaning the lense won't help, the memory card might be damaged. Try with another card.

wheather you check in computer repair shop is their any virus present in memory card? format your memory card! check virus is present in your computer or not! ?Try it!

Sometimes flash memory can be exhausted, so to speak, and will stop functioning. This is all you can do to get your pictures back. After that try running a format and then the error check tools under the tools tab in the right click properties window.

Download a program called FreeUndelete from here and install it but before you open it, connect your MP3 player or insert your SD card. After you start the program up, select the drive letter that represents the memory you want to scan for deleted files.Click the scan button above the list and wait. If there's too many results, then look near the bottom of the window. There should be a"Filter found files" line where you can enter in the file type of the photos you lost. It probably should be this: "*.jpg" Once you have found the files you want to recover, create a folder you want to save them to in your My Documents folder and copy the path to that folder by right clicking on it then clicking properties. The path you need to copy is the line called Location (don't actually copy "Location: ".Just what's after it :p ) Now paste it in the line called "Undelete selected file(s) To" under the "Filter found files" line. Make sure you paste over the existing text. Finally, click the Undelete button to the right and Viola! check the files out in the folder you created in your My Documents folder.

hello sodaclub, this fault is normally caused from to much light entering through the lens, the shutter is not closing or working at all.

the spots on mine are orangey and lines on mine are through the whole picture.

the picture looks overexpoed and orangey/yellowish in artificial light.

Try first to reset your camera. Press the menu button, go over to setup, go down to reset, press the right arrow, highlight reset and press set. Don't worry it won't erase any of the pictures on your memory card. If that doesn't work you can try and manually set the white balance on your camera and I would recommend sending it into repairs if that doesn't work since it's taking nighttime pictures fine. :)

Assuming your camera acts like a removable drive when connected to the PC try the following.

1. Right click the removable drive(your camera) in my computer and go properties>tools>error checking>tick both boxes>ok
2. Wait till it finishes and check if you can now view the contents of the card. And copy to safe place straight away.
3. Try http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ to recover any deleted files or fragments of damaged files.
4. Let me know if any of this works.