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Is my digital camera dying?

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Please have a close look at this pic that I took with my camera. I do have a vertical line at about 1/3 of the pic (from the left side). I took a picture of a black background to show that the line is not on the motive. Same stupid line is showing on all pictures I take. (depending on your browser you might have to click and view the whole picture, to actually see it)
There is no scratch or anything similar in front of the lens.
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One column of the sensor array defect?
OR
Are you eventually recording atomic spektra lines? Almost looks like the Natrium D line in poor resolution :angel:

btw, some people would sell that picture as art :)
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Is it on the RAW file as well?
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Raw file? I can see it on the camera display also, when looking and zooming in on any pic i am taking. I assume this is what you are refering to?
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some fancy pancy cameras store the pictures in a file format called RAW. Takes lot of space, but it is the original picture not some compressed jpeg.
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using FF browser just see black, cant enlarge it or see any line.
upload to external site. please state your camera model and company.
and if its not a "fancy" camera just buy a "fancy" one! they are worth it!
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@Digz - Just copy the image location and paste it in a new tab :)

I don't think just fancy cameras have this option, but yeah not all cameras do. If you see the line on the LCD display as well then like Jokerle mentioned it might be a sensor issue.
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http://img9.org/uploads/8e7aaea7493e59a ... e34048.jpg

So if it is the sensor, I guess it is put something on the wishlist for Santa-time of the year .... Or does it make sense to have the sensor changed?
And damn I checked what underwatercasing for fancy cameras are sold for... They are easyly the price of an expensive camera. 8O not to talk about underwaterflash equipment :roll:
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Possible solutions:
Try updating the firmware
See if the distortion is software based by shooting in a RAW format, RAW is an uncompressed form of image. As you've not done it so far, I'm going to assume you cant do that.
Try switching your memory card.

As the line is only one pixel across, I'd say it's a fault in your sensor. On the other hand modern cameras do all kinds of funny compression in the pipeline from the sensor to the memory card, so I'm not sure.

Unless it was a really expensive camera I'd start considering getting a new one. Repair on cameras could be really expensive.
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Will look for said update and report back
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Nope, no firmware on the panasonic homepage. :cry:
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Pretty straight line, would guess sensor.
Does it get wider when you zoom in?
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did you take many picutres with
the camera aimed with the sun in the frame?

not good for sensors.
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so which camera are you using btw?

Little trivia: With modern cameras and their electronic sensors there is always the issue of some of the pixels on the sensor malfunctioning. Those are commonly called dead (black) or hot (bright and various colours) pixels. Most higher end cameras allow those to be "mapped out" or do it automatically. Essentialy this means the camera will ignore those pixels and context-fill them. But it can also be done in most picture-editing programs manually and can be automated. So in actual use they don´t matter too much (unless you are doing long-exposure).

Now what you got is a whole row of hot pixels. So something broke those which is 90% bright sunlight or lasers on concerts. Example here:
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And the only thing you can do against it is either sending it back for repair or just trying to map those pixels out and keep using the camera as usual. Either in camera (if you can) or by post-editing. There are tons of tutorials on how to do the later. In the best case you can shoot RAW and let Lightroom/Photoshop do it automatically for you.
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It is a Panasonic DMC-FX07. I am pretty sure it was not the sunlight ... might have been one of the underwater lamps we use though ...

I will try the Photoshop auto-edit function (didn't even know about it) once I am back home from the holiday. You guys can surely guide me within Photoshop, where to find it. :oops:

Looking at that video I guess I am "lucky" still.
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