No response as yet wayward. The camera turns on and takes a 'picture' but the LCD screen and the picture taken are nothing but vivid flares. I've found a couple of sites that mentioned this as a specific problem and the Canon site still has the advisory ......dated 2007....so hopefully it's still in effect.
Really don't like to be so negative, but this is getting to me. She was so excited to be getting it, I had already taken half dozen shots which turned out fine, so when she turned it on and got nothing but flare I just about lost it. It is possible it wasn't doing this but already being ticked about the shipping I'm having a hard time believing anything positive (or even neutral) right now. And of course when I messaged him
I did have to mention that I was pleased with the camera