Night-time LCD stripes

[meemup]

I just got my G2 (first digital camera) last night and took it outside for some low-light test shots. I found that street lights, traffic lights, and really any bright point light source showed up on my LCD as vertical, blue-white stipes from top of screen to bottom (only in viewfinder mode - in playback mode, the pics looked fine)

I hadn't read about anything like this in all my pre-purchase research. Any ideas if this is a defect? Or am I just being silly?

Sincerely,

meemup

[kd6lor]

To the best of my knowledge they all to that. Consider it a design feature. It will not show up in your pics. I did read about it somewhere, possibly buried in the manual or on the web.

Enjoy your new camera.

Paul

[GordonMcGregor]

This is a known 'feature' not something wrong with your particular camera. I believe it is mentioned in the G2 manual. It doesn't appear in the final output, it is just an artefact on the LCD

Gordon

[mlfrancis]

Just confirming it is in the G2 manual. It says it will show up on the LCD but not the pictures. It is a WAD (works as designed).