dyintorace
dyintorace GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
11/10/08 4:30 p.m.

You guys have been so helpful regarding my education on DSLR's, I thought I would try this one too.

Lately, my digital point & shoot (Canon Powershot A95) has been acting up. When taking pictures in artificial light, everything ends up with a strange purple glow. An example is below. This was shot in auto mode (I know, I know...a crutch).

So...is the camera fried somehow? I don't know anything that happened to it, but I do have an 8 year old daughter who wants to be a photographer when she grows up, and she's been known to sneak the camera out for picture taking sprees.

DILYSI Dave
DILYSI Dave SuperDork
11/10/08 4:36 p.m.

I don't know - I think that looks pretty sweet.

JmfnB
JmfnB GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
11/10/08 4:44 p.m.

My Minolta D'Image 7 was doing similar stuff, until I realized that I had the settings all wonky in the menu.

With the picture creep you have there I would bet you need the cameras inners rebuilt though.

dyintorace
dyintorace GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
11/10/08 4:46 p.m.
DILYSI Dave wrote: I don't know - I think that looks pretty sweet.

In that case, want to buy a camera?

dyintorace
dyintorace GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
11/10/08 4:46 p.m.
JmfnB wrote: My Minolta D'Image 7 was doing similar stuff, until I realized that I had the settings all wonky in the menu. With the picture creep you have there I would bet you need the cameras inners rebuilt though.

Ugh. I was worried the answer would be something like that.

Tommy Suddard
Tommy Suddard GRM+ Member
11/10/08 8:13 p.m.

It's probably the wrong white balance setting. Do you know how to change it?

Tommy Suddard
Tommy Suddard GRM+ Member
11/10/08 8:23 p.m.

White Balance almost all fixed in photoshop:

pigeon
pigeon Reader
11/10/08 9:23 p.m.

I don't know if that's the type of problem, but the Canon A95 along with a bunch of other cameras is subject to a recall for bad CCD chips - Canon will repair/replace for free including shipping both ways. Check out more info here .

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