red and white stripes

[rotomike]

My brand new Rebel T5 shows red and white stripes like a flag and does not show any image.  Is the camera a faulty one or is there a setting that needs changing? 

Mike

[RobertTheFat]

Did you format the card in the camera before reying to use it?

[rotomike]

I am running with no card it is used as a webcam and a computer polls the image from the cam.   The same thing that I did before and i have the menu set to use shutter without card.

Mike

[RobertTheFat]

---

@rotomike wrote:

I am running with no card it is used as a webcam and a computer polls the image from the cam.   The same thing that I did before and i have the menu set to use shutter without card.

Mike

---

I'll guess that you're exceeding the buffer capacity of the camera. I base that on the fact that the T5 is a somewhat stripped-down camera and that since it's brand new, it can't be the camera that you used that way (i.e., without a card) successfully in the past. Try it with a (fast) card in it.

[Waddizzle]

---

@RobertTheFat wrote:

---

@rotomike wrote:

I am running with no card it is used as a webcam and a computer polls the image from the cam.   The same thing that I did before and i have the menu set to use shutter without card.

Mike

---

I'll guess that you're exceeding the buffer capacity of the camera. I base that on the fact that the T5 is a somewhat stripped-down camera and that since it's brand new, it can't be the camera that you used that way (i.e., without a card) successfully in the past. Try it with a (fast) card in it.

---

Either that, or the image sensor has overheated and been damaged.  The T5 is a stills camera, not a video camera.

[rotomike]

i dont use it for video and takes a snapshot every 10 minutes i will try a card in it to see what happens.  What type and how big can it be?

Mike

[rotomike]

just tried card and still red and white stripes.  did that from the get go out of box.

Mike

[Waddizzle]

Okay,  What happens if you disconnect the computer, and just simply take a normal picture?

[rotomike]

That's what I'm doing just snapping pictures with camera only and just stripes. It has like maybe 10 total stripes red and white like flag horizontal.

[Waddizzle]

I would ask you to pot a sample image, but it sounds like your camera's sensor may have failed.  But, post a sample, anyway.