??? CCD weird issue

[directedition]

Alright buddies, here's the rub. I'm sure everyone is familiar with how a CCD gets those white vertical lines when something bright is in view. Well, if I turn on the camera when it's pointed at a scene with pretty much any amount of contrast to it, I get this weird inverted 'blow out bars' thingy of the initial image it sees. Like, if I have a very bright light in view and turn the camera on, I get a completely black vertical line that doesn't go away till I turn the camera off and back on again. Turning the camera on with the lens cover avoids this.

It affects white balance as well. Shooting through a window in a tungsten lit room will get warm bars on the outside and a cool bar on the inside.

[Barry_Green]

Try doing a black balance (hold down the white balance button until it does an ABB); if that doesn't help (and I don't suspect that it will, but hey...) then it sounds like you might need a trip to service.

[directedition]

Just FYI. Got the camera back from Panasonic. They said the problem resulted from connecting the firewire on devices that were already powered. It's rare that it happens, but there was a power surge that resulted that damaged some of the boards.

[ProfessorU]

Thanks for posting back!