Catastrophe of Catastrophe! New Canon S3 IS dropped on concr

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Apparantly the neck strap was not installed correctly and as I hung it from my neck it just completely unraveled and fell on the hard concrete!!

I paid $400 for this thing! I played with it a bit and it seems like everything is fine, zoom, fstop, white balance setting, etc.

Is there anything else I should inspect or check to make sure its working.

There seems to be one problem, but it could be a user error, I took a picture of a subject and it looks different from the lcd to the review screen. While I am looking at it live it looks great, but then when I take the shot it looks slightly different in color, seems to be a yellowish cast.

I cant believe this happened! The body does have a few nicks not major, but noticeable so I probably cant return it. I bought it from a local adray camera shop.

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Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

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Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

[gold4knight]

most probably you need to adjust the white balance if the yellowish cast appears on photos taken indoor.

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Yeah I did this, but why does the captured picture differ from the preview?

Thanks.

[Kamal Hans]

Bec the live view is "as it is" while the shot is affected by the White balance setting

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Kamal Hans wrote:

Bec the live view is "as it is" while the shot is affected by the White balance setting

Well I can say this when I would go to take a picture before the drop what I saw on the lcd is what I got.