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Horizontal lines

Started Oct 30, 2012 | Questions
BabeNewYear New Member • Posts: 3
Horizontal lines

I just bought a Samsung DV300F camera to take on my vacation and after only a couple shots, horizontal lines started appearing on the display and in the images.  It started in the bright light shots, but now it's also appearing in the indoor shots.  Is this a problem with my settings or is this s defect?

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viking79
viking79 Forum Pro • Posts: 14,157
Re: Horizontal lines

That sounds defective.  Try a different memory card first, if you have one. I don't think that is it though since you are seeing it on the rear display as well.  Memory cards could give you defective images, but it should look normal on the display if the memory card is acting up.

Eric

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Zdman Regular Member • Posts: 236
Re: Horizontal lines

Had something similar with my nx100. They were mainly magenta lines and the screen took on a blue tinge. Was a broken sensor and they replaced the camera so I'd definitely take it back.

OP BabeNewYear New Member • Posts: 3
Re: Horizontal lines

Thank you for the replies.  Guess I'll return it when I get back.... Would have been nice to have pics of my vacation.  I was really hoping it was a setting and not a defect, ah well.

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Re: Horizontal lines

BabeNewYear wrote:

Thank you for the replies. Guess I'll return it when I get back.... Would have been nice to have pics of my vacation. I was really hoping it was a setting and not a defect, ah well.

I am not sure if there are any image editing tools that will remove the dead rows of pixels for you from your travel photos or not, maybe someone else can chime in?

Eric

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