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Sporadic red tint problem

by sjnatwork Feb 11, 2010 10:20AM PST

Hi,
My Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT has a problem that has gotten progressively worse. I purchased the camera in 2007 and starting about a year later it would take an occasional picture with a red, grainy tint. It started out being about 1 of every 20 pictures, now it is about 19 of 20. The camera is basically unusable.

Some details:
- I've restored the factory settings
- happens regardless of mode
- compressed or uncompressed files
- Using burst mode, some will be fine, others not
- Lexar Professional compact flash w/write accel, 1GB, 133x
- red pics are about twice the file size of the similar, "good" pic
- regardless of lens. Have a 35-80mm and 75-300mm.

Again, this happens with successive pictures. One fine, the next bad. I'm figuring this has to be the camera, but before sending it off for repair I thought I'd check if it could possibly be the compact flash card. I have not tried another as I hesitate to throw money away.

Thank you,
Scott