G2 LCD acting strangelly

Davor Cengija said:

We all know when you want to take a self-portrait with G2 you just
pull out the LCD and swivel it so that you can see yourself. All
the informations such as apperture etc disappear and the image is
mirrored.

But I just noticed that my G2 doesn't flip the image anymore and
all the setting are still printed on the screen, everything turned
upside-down. It looks like the LCD doesn't know it's been flipped
by 180 degrees. If I try to place it back against the camera body
(to have it placed just like a 'normal' camera LCD) then the image
at some stage (slightly less than 90 degs) looses the printed
informations and the image is mirrored. When completelly 'clicked'
against the camera, everything gets back (just as it should). Then
again when I try to take a self-portrait I see the image mirrored
and it stays like that until the LCD is positioned 90degs against
the camera body (is such a position you can see left from you on
the LCD). Then, as soon as I move the LCD a little bit more to the
left, it flips the image upside-down and shows the in-camera
setting (apperture etc), also turned upside-down.

It looks like the camera doesn't understand when the LCD is flipped
anymore.

Has anyone experienced such a behaviour?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Davor

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Inner Peace said:

Hi Davor,

This is exactly what started happening to my G2 after about 9
months of use.

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Inner Peace said:

I ignored it at first as I seldom use the self
prortrait function but it got worse. After a few weeks the point at
which it would display correctly as the LCD was pushed back into
the body of the camera for normal viewing got less and less.
Eventually it refused to flip at all and the screen blanked out
completely when clicked back into the body. That was when I decided
to do something about it. It's currently with Canon being repaired.
I suspect the problem is with a break in the wire to the
microswitch or maybe the switch itself in the bottom half of the
hinge. There's a bundle of cables that go from the display down
through the hinge and into the main body of the camera at the
bottom. This bundle seems to catch against the wire going to the
microswitch and I suspect mine broke and was only making
intermittent contact. As the display is rotated around these cables
rub against each other and unfortunately something has to give at
some point :-(

I'm surprised there haven't been more cases reported so far.
Hopefully we are just unlucky! Get it off to Canon before the
warranty expires.

Mark

Davor Cengija said:

We all know when you want to take a self-portrait with G2 you just
pull out the LCD and swivel it so that you can see yourself. All
the informations such as apperture etc disappear and the image is
mirrored.

But I just noticed that my G2 doesn't flip the image anymore and
all the setting are still printed on the screen, everything turned
upside-down. It looks like the LCD doesn't know it's been flipped
by 180 degrees. If I try to place it back against the camera body
(to have it placed just like a 'normal' camera LCD) then the image
at some stage (slightly less than 90 degs) looses the printed
informations and the image is mirrored. When completelly 'clicked'
against the camera, everything gets back (just as it should). Then
again when I try to take a self-portrait I see the image mirrored
and it stays like that until the LCD is positioned 90degs against
the camera body (is such a position you can see left from you on
the LCD). Then, as soon as I move the LCD a little bit more to the
left, it flips the image upside-down and shows the in-camera
setting (apperture etc), also turned upside-down.

It looks like the camera doesn't understand when the LCD is flipped
anymore.

Has anyone experienced such a behaviour?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Davor

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Davor Cengija said:

We all know when you want to take a self-portrait with G2 you just
pull out the LCD and swivel it so that you can see yourself. All
the informations such as apperture etc disappear and the image is
mirrored.

But I just noticed that my G2 doesn't flip the image anymore and
all the setting are still printed on the screen, everything turned
upside-down. It looks like the LCD doesn't know it's been flipped
by 180 degrees. If I try to place it back against the camera body
(to have it placed just like a 'normal' camera LCD) then the image
at some stage (slightly less than 90 degs) looses the printed
informations and the image is mirrored. When completelly 'clicked'
against the camera, everything gets back (just as it should). Then
again when I try to take a self-portrait I see the image mirrored
and it stays like that until the LCD is positioned 90degs against
the camera body (is such a position you can see left from you on
the LCD). Then, as soon as I move the LCD a little bit more to the
left, it flips the image upside-down and shows the in-camera
setting (apperture etc), also turned upside-down.

It looks like the camera doesn't understand when the LCD is flipped
anymore.

Has anyone experienced such a behaviour?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Davor

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morris said:

Broken micro switch. RMA with Canon.

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Member said:

Davor Cengija said:

We all know when you want to take a self-portrait with G2 you just
pull out the LCD and swivel it so that you can see yourself. All
the informations such as apperture etc disappear and the image is
mirrored.

But I just noticed that my G2 doesn't flip the image anymore and
all the setting are still printed on the screen, everything turned
upside-down. It looks like the LCD doesn't know it's been flipped
by 180 degrees. If I try to place it back against the camera body
(to have it placed just like a 'normal' camera LCD) then the image
at some stage (slightly less than 90 degs) looses the printed
informations and the image is mirrored. When completelly 'clicked'
against the camera, everything gets back (just as it should). Then
again when I try to take a self-portrait I see the image mirrored
and it stays like that until the LCD is positioned 90degs against
the camera body (is such a position you can see left from you on
the LCD). Then, as soon as I move the LCD a little bit more to the
left, it flips the image upside-down and shows the in-camera
setting (apperture etc), also turned upside-down.

It looks like the camera doesn't understand when the LCD is flipped
anymore.

Has anyone experienced such a behaviour?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Davor

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Davor Cengija said:

morris said:

Broken micro switch. RMA with Canon.

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Thanks, Morris. I just talked with the Canon representative, they
will take the camera for repairment, since it's still under
warranty.

I don't know what RMA means. Translation?

Cheers
Davor

Davor Cengija said:

Davor Cengija said:

We all know when you want to take a self-portrait with G2 you just
pull out the LCD and swivel it so that you can see yourself. All
the informations such as apperture etc disappear and the image is
mirrored.

But I just noticed that my G2 doesn't flip the image anymore and
all the setting are still printed on the screen, everything turned
upside-down. It looks like the LCD doesn't know it's been flipped
by 180 degrees. If I try to place it back against the camera body
(to have it placed just like a 'normal' camera LCD) then the image
at some stage (slightly less than 90 degs) looses the printed
informations and the image is mirrored. When completelly 'clicked'
against the camera, everything gets back (just as it should). Then
again when I try to take a self-portrait I see the image mirrored
and it stays like that until the LCD is positioned 90degs against
the camera body (is such a position you can see left from you on
the LCD). Then, as soon as I move the LCD a little bit more to the
left, it flips the image upside-down and shows the in-camera
setting (apperture etc), also turned upside-down.

It looks like the camera doesn't understand when the LCD is flipped
anymore.

Has anyone experienced such a behaviour?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Davor

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morris said:

RMA = Return Material Authorization

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