Hi everyone : After 2 months research I decided to buy FZ20 which found suits to my need. I was experimenting different scenerios in shooting and most time it gave me wonderful shots. But yesterday I was covering a Birthday party and had to take snaps at 1 frame for every 15 seconds or so but after the 27 th frame the LCD appeared with lot of horizontal lines and smeared colour. I am attaching a portion of the frame for everyone to take a look.
Iam using Kingston memory and Vivitar 2500 flash. I did a reseat of the memory and even removed the battery from camera in a hope to see it reset. But nothing helped. I have a feeling the image processor got overheated and failed. after the camera cool down every thing was back to normal. Have any one in this forum had seen this happen any suggestions ?
Contacting Panasonic to see what explanation they have.
As I mention in my first post the camera turns OK when cools down,no chance it has anything to do with flash. I have a different flash so I will try that also to see any connection.
I googled that flash and while most people say it is about 15 volt there were some reports that the trigger voltage was way higher than that.
I would check the voltage of that flash and any other you are going to use.
Do you ever see that without the flash being used?
I have left a FZ20 on for 10 hrs or so and never saw that result...I do not think overheating is the problem,but what do I know?
I hope you get it figured out.
One other time just to see if it would do it ...I took photos in burst mode till I filled a 1gb card and when I downloaded them to the computer I only took a quick look before deleteing most of them ,but I did not see that.
I think that was well over 500 photos.
Now I am trying to duplicate the situation but nothing happend even after 80 almost continues frames. I used the same flash in test. I am confused now what could have caused it. The camera has only has 3 weeks of usage I wish it fails completly before the warranty expires
Good luck.........I wonder, since as someone else said it looked like electrical interference....If there could have been an external source of interference.
I am not sure what may do that ..maybe a security device?
Any electrical device that is not shielded real good could cause interference. When I did a google search I saw that some types of studio lights and microphones cause interference also. A cell phone or other transmitter that is to close might be a possible cause to.
I got to duplicate the problem. I was using manual focus mode in low light( 60W room light) different flash and shot close to 30 frames with adjusting focus for every frame, it failed with streaks and colours as earlier. I allowed to cool the camera for 10 minutes this time no flash but sensitivity in 400 low light after 20 frames it failed again fail to focus, LCD went purple colour with all streaked image.
Some what sure some component in image processing is the culprit.
I cannot belive there is an interference because both the set up was at different houses only thing common was me. Thanks Mike for all replies.
New FZ20 fail @#!!!!
Some what sure some component in image processing is the culprit.
Linear Mode
