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Red Vertical Line on Canon HF S20

Jul 11, 2010 3:03PM PDT

I've had my camcorder for about 4 months now without any issues. I recorded a film today that worked great, no problems. Tonight I was outside recording and it was working fine, then suddenly I got a thin 1-2 pixel-wide red line running top to bottom straight down the camcorder. I can't seem to turn it off.

Is this a setting I somehow set wrong? Or is my camera broken?

The red line appears on the recorded footage as well Sad

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Canon HF S30 has red horizontal line
Oct 6, 2011 11:55AM PDT

Did you ever get an answer for this problem? I just bought a Canon Vixia hfs30 and started recording and a red horizontal line appeared and won't go away . Also on the recorded footage. Any help would be appreciated.

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Did you get the 5 year warranty?
Oct 7, 2011 7:03AM PDT