what is wrong with my camera?

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Totally gutted. Took my fiancee away for her birthday to London. First day was fine, got some lovely photos from the Eye. Day two, pulled up at Tower bridge took a photo, previewed and had something simlar to the below. All my photos had a white square in the middle like below.

Does anyone have any ideas what it might be before it goes to a repair agent?

It does it with both my lenses and also with no lens attached. All settings restored to factory too. I havent reloaded the firmware (not even sure if you can as only got back last night)

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ITs a long shot but have you tried a different memory card? :thinking: Seems very unlikely but you have done everythign else I can think of. Seems very strange indeed.
 
phil8139 said:
Wow, looks like a comment box to me, are they the same if you view in camera?
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I have only viewed in camera, Only got back late last night and had work early this morning

mastertrinity said:
maybe its some sort of picture style where you can create frames or something?
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There isnt any options like this on my camera

Donki said:
ITs a long shot but have you tried a different memory card? :thinking: Seems very unlikely but you have done everythign else I can think of. Seems very strange indeed.
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Sorry, yes I tried that too.

Trev Rich said:
why cant you show us a shot straight from the camera?
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Only got back late last night and at work now.

smoothedit said:
And more info - looks definitely a sensor fault - hopefully changed FOC by Fuji/Sony.
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Thanks a lot, I was struggling to find any info online. I will email Fuji direct and see what they say. Fingers crossed!
 
I'd be tempted to pop the lens off and activate mirror lockup. I suspect that you'll see that only the main mirror moves and the secondary mirror is still hanging there in the light path.

Bob
 
Canon Bob said:
I'd be tempted to pop the lens off and activate mirror lockup. I suspect that you'll see that only the main mirror moves and the secondary mirror is still hanging there in the light path.

Bob
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Do you think this would be an expensive repair? I know its an old camera but I dont really have much funds in the way of a replacement.
 
I wonder if CS5 'content replace' can deal with that one ?!
 
Looks like a factory 'cover' like the clear plastic ones on new mobile phones wasn't removed from the sensor during assembly to me...

Look for human error before blaming the software and sensors etc...
 
Arkady said:
Looks like a factory 'cover' like the clear plastic ones on new mobile phones wasn't removed from the sensor during assembly to me...

Look for human error before blaming the software and sensors etc...
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How can it be if his first day's photos were fine? :shrug:

Unless a gremlin came in his room overnight and stuck a bit of plastic on his sensor. :D
 
Oops!!!

Sorry, missed that first line - OK, so the camera's FUBAR'd

...should have bought a Nikon.

:D
 
If it were the secondary mirror.... wouldn't you be able to see teh shape of whatever holds it in place?

Also wouldn't it be a black silhouette instead of a white one where it's underexposed as no lights getting in?
 
It is WHITE ! Just like a grossly overexposed shot. It is the sensor or a electronic fault.
 
bearing in mind this is an old Fuji S2, do you think its beyond economical repair? I do not have a clue how much it will be to repair but I know usually there is a £25-50 inspection fee. If its going to be a couple of hundred to repair then I may as well put that £25-50 towards a new camera
 
Best suggestion there is to take it to a good local camera shop - they should be able to take a quick look at the camera, and give you a fairly straight and honest answer?

Bear in mind that either way they might get some business - either they sell you the service, or they sell you a new camera! :lol:

p.s. gut instinct is probably not worth it - prolly better off just buying new, but if t'were me and I'd be writing the camera off anyway, I'd take it somewhere clean and try a bit of self-diagnosis before investing :D
 
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