help!!--dropped camera, crazy pixels on peaking

[gtoshima]

hi,

my three year old decided to help me clean by sweeping my camera off the couch...

when i turned camera on to check, screen showed pixels (in peaking mode) everywhere,
not just area of focus.  eventually, a couple dead pixels appeared on screen, which i was
able to fix via mapping.

if i disable peaking, it seems to be fine...but clearly something is wrong.

i'm planning on bringing camera to canon to get fixed...does anybody have any idea of
what part of camera might have been damaged/needs to be looked at?  i don't really
want to show ML pixel situation to canon rep.  but i'd like to be able to tell him what
part of camera might need assessing.

thanks.
goro

[DeafEyeJedi]

Can you just uninstall ML and then reinstall it again after repair, only if it does need to be repaired by Canon?

[dmilligan]

@gtoshima ,

What you say doesn't make any sense. You can't break software by dropping it. When electronics break, it is usually totally. It's practically impossible to damage digital electronics in such a way that some piece of software still works, but works differently (everything is on the same chip or related chips, if it breaks physically, nothing works). If you damaged the screen, then everything would look strange, not just ML's focus peaking.

Perhaps you should post a video of the issue you are having. I imagine that you have perhaps simply enabled a mode or setting that you simply haven't used before, and are not familiar with how it looks/works.

You have also left off very important information like: camera model, ML version and date, etc.

[Ottoga]

Agree with dmilligan. Try setting ML back to its defaults and see if the issue still exists. Check your camera mode as well, may that has been changed to something that would result in excessive overexposure.