s330 and video mode distortions

rholt said:

I have had my s330 for about 2 weeks from Dell.
I soon noticed that the LCD had a semi-transperant horizontal line
in it about 1/3 from the top of the screen.
At first, I thought, a poor quality LCD, ... no problem, I'll see
if it keeps up.

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rholt said:

I have had my s330 for about 2 weeks from Dell.
I soon noticed that the LCD had a semi-transperant horizontal line
in it about 1/3 from the top of the screen.
At first, I thought, a poor quality LCD, ... no problem, I'll see
if it keeps up.

So after some heavy usage with the s330 last weekend, I noticed
that the line does not appear when I view the pictures in review
mode. In fact, the line sometimes moves as the metering calibrates
(when I point the camera at one object, then quickly move to
another.)
After some testing, it appears that the line moves to just over the
3 metering boxes to just under them depending upon lighting
conditions, sometimes it is more than one semi-transperant line.
Further observation revealed it appears in all shooting modes other
than review.
So I concluded, it is NOT the LCD, like I earlier believed.

Actual still images under Zoom on the PC do not show the line. In
fact,it disappears from the LCD just before the image is taken.

I have changed almost all settings: Zoom, DigZoom, AF lamp, ISO, WB
and special mode, etc, still it persists.

However, all Movie modes do show the line, in the camera playback
and on the PC.

IS the CCD bad?
Because it's not in the finished pic's but it shows up big time in
every movies I have shot.

Is this a defect? Does anyone else's s330 show this? Did any s300
show this? Should I send it back for a new one?

Thanks, Rob

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OlgaJ said:

My S330 LCD does not have that line that you see. My LCD appears to
be off-center, with a straight solid white line on the very top of
the screen, a straight solid black line on the very left of the
screen and a very annoying dead spot in the middle of the lower
right quadrant, if you picture an imaginary line down and another
across the middle of the screen. There is no change in any mode. I
should have a replacement tomorrow, so I'm curious how that one
will be. Overall I find this LCD very poor compared to my Olympus
C3000Z and an Olympus D450 that I had.

I have no problems with actual images as seen on monitor, no hot
pixels. I haven't recorded enough movies to be able to tell how
that is but wasn't planning on using the movie mode anyway. Overall
I am very satisfied with the camera with the exception of the LCD
screen.

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rholt said:

I have had my s330 for about 2 weeks from Dell.
I soon noticed that the LCD had a semi-transperant horizontal line
in it about 1/3 from the top of the screen.
At first, I thought, a poor quality LCD, ... no problem, I'll see
if it keeps up.

So after some heavy usage with the s330 last weekend, I noticed
that the line does not appear when I view the pictures in review
mode. In fact, the line sometimes moves as the metering calibrates
(when I point the camera at one object, then quickly move to
another.)
After some testing, it appears that the line moves to just over the
3 metering boxes to just under them depending upon lighting
conditions, sometimes it is more than one semi-transperant line.
Further observation revealed it appears in all shooting modes other
than review.
So I concluded, it is NOT the LCD, like I earlier believed.

Actual still images under Zoom on the PC do not show the line. In
fact,it disappears from the LCD just before the image is taken.

I have changed almost all settings: Zoom, DigZoom, AF lamp, ISO, WB
and special mode, etc, still it persists.

However, all Movie modes do show the line, in the camera playback
and on the PC.

IS the CCD bad?
Because it's not in the finished pic's but it shows up big time in
every movies I have shot.

Is this a defect? Does anyone else's s330 show this? Did any s300
show this? Should I send it back for a new one?

Thanks, Rob

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rholt said:

Does anyone think I should ask for a replacement?

rholt said:

I have had my s330 for about 2 weeks from Dell.
I soon noticed that the LCD had a semi-transperant horizontal line
in it about 1/3 from the top of the screen.
At first, I thought, a poor quality LCD, ... no problem, I'll see
if it keeps up.

So after some heavy usage with the s330 last weekend, I noticed
that the line does not appear when I view the pictures in review
mode. In fact, the line sometimes moves as the metering calibrates
(when I point the camera at one object, then quickly move to
another.)
After some testing, it appears that the line moves to just over the
3 metering boxes to just under them depending upon lighting
conditions, sometimes it is more than one semi-transperant line.
Further observation revealed it appears in all shooting modes other
than review.
So I concluded, it is NOT the LCD, like I earlier believed.

Actual still images under Zoom on the PC do not show the line. In
fact,it disappears from the LCD just before the image is taken.

I have changed almost all settings: Zoom, DigZoom, AF lamp, ISO, WB
and special mode, etc, still it persists.

However, all Movie modes do show the line, in the camera playback
and on the PC.

IS the CCD bad?
Because it's not in the finished pic's but it shows up big time in
every movies I have shot.

Is this a defect? Does anyone else's s330 show this? Did any s300
show this? Should I send it back for a new one?

Thanks, Rob

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