Smoke coming out of flash.

[ahsm57]

I don't know what happened, I was fooling aruond and taking pics, and I see smoke coming out of the flash. What happened?

[Jon]

It got too hot. What camera? If it's still under warranty, call Canon about sending it back.

[ahsm57]

PowerShot A75 is the camera. And yes, it is still under warranty.

[Pugdaddy]

There was a guy on here a short while back that had a lot of trouble with this. Search "smoking" and look for "A70 Flash- Smoking".

[xdjoynerx]

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

[Pugdaddy]

Whats funny, xd?

[mresman]

I have experienced a small wiff of smoke coming out of my flash - an SD550. I sent it in to Canon for repair, the engineers looked at it, they were not able to reproduce it.

They say the camera is within specification :) with no problems found.

I expect that dust is getting in the flash compartment. When taking a picture in the dark, the flash puts out a great deal of power and ignites the dust. Smoke eminates from the compartment.

Canon told me not to put my pocket camera in my pocket. :)

[mresman]

I was informed by my wife that she noticed it smoking once again, 9 months after geting the repaired unit from canon.

They hypothisized that it was dust in the flash unit that was burnt off when the flash fired.

I guess the amount of flash is governed by the darkness of the subject matter and at night the flash fires particularly hot and thus has a greater propensity to smoke.

This is my third digital camera and my first smoking flash. Seems like a design flaw.