Blinking areas on Review?

Okay, I am looking at my pictures on the LCD review wcreen and some of them have areas within the picture that are blinking nack and forth between black and the original color....what does this mean?

Under/Over Exposure in the shade/highlights of the shot. Basically, if your exposure is not correct, you will get the blinkies. Try 'bracketing' the shots, and see which one fits best. Bracketing should be in the manual...depending on the camera, in use.

Good luck, hope that helped.

The S2 is giving you an overexposure warning. The blinking areas are blown-out highlights. You need to adjust the exposure compensation to a minus number, such as -1/3 or -2/3 or however much you need to get rid of the blinkies...

This is on page 32 of the S2IS manual. The EC value on most of my shots are either at -1/3 or -2/3.

IMHO you only need to get rid of 'blinkies' when they occur on a subject of interest. For example if you are shooting a portrait and you have 'blinkies' on the face then you need to adjust your exposure.
However it would be fine to take a picture of a room scene and a bare lightbulb was a blinkey, unless of course you want to see the lightbulb and the room needs to be very dark.
Blinkies do not show on the photo, they are to warn you you are risking the loss of detail by something being too bright (aka blown-out). If you always adjust to get rid of the blinkies you will end up with very dark pictures.