G6 Assist Beam won't turn off! Help!

[exciet]

I just got the Canon G6 and was just experimenting it. I don't like the Assist Beam since it is very bright, and turned it off. However, when i was taking pictures inside my apartment, (relatively dark), when i semi press the release button, the light is still ON? What's going on here?

Also, i was sitting down, and took a picture of my dress, but because the "assist beam" light was so bright, the picture came out so white that you can't really see anything about my dress. I took the same picture using my old Olypus C 4000, it wasn't a problem, the dress was fine on the picture.

Could someone please help me? I am not very happy about the G6 right now since i don't think it's a big improvement over my Olympus C4000, and camera is so bulky....

Thanks!

[aln]

you'll have to turn off red eye aswell as af assist beam to turn it off...

[woffles]

It shouldn't have effected your exposure anyways. It shuts off when you take the picture. Either the flash fired and was too close or another setting was wrong which caused the overexposure.

[lostdoggy]

If your dress is a very light color especially white it is very difficult for the meter to meter properly. You might have to set camera to manual exposure to correct the problem.