Just got an IXUS 960IS and I am not sure if the following is normal when taking movies. Any movie that has a slightly brighter area than the rest of the scene, i.e. a window/part of a window has lots and lots of purple/blue vertical lines running right through the frame from top to bottom, in some cases it's a purple bar the width of the window or brighter area. Is it normal for one of these compacts too suffer so badly from what I think is termed vertical smear? This make the camera almost useless for taking movies indoors with windows present and captured in the frame. (The same scene on an S2 show no (or extremely little) vertical smear.) Freddy T
