Digital camera question

[abcdefz]

...I'm having hard time figuring out a solution to this.

Okay: if I'm taking pictures with my camera at night (or pre-dawn, whatever), I sometimes get a yellow/green line on the image. Always the same spot -- it's a vertical line about 5/8ths or so on the right, from bottom to about 5/8th's up the screen. It comes out on the photo when I print it out, too.

This happens even if light isn't directly hitting the lens, but if I steer far enough away from any light source (or reflective light which seems strong enough to read as a source), then I'm fine. But that has ruined a few decent compositions.

It happens with any type of light -- doesn't matter if it's flourescent (sp?), halogen (sp?), moonlight reflected in a pretty girl's eye -- doesn't matter.

Hopefully someone here can help a photography ... um... what's smaller than a novice? :D

[zorra_chiflada]

show me

[abcdefz]

...I don't have a way to rescale or upload photos here, but if you subtract the periods from the graphic below, you'll get the idea:

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!..........................!.....!
!..........................!.....!
!..........................!.....!
!..........................!.....!
!________________!___!



...okay: so imagine that's an image (the rectangle part) and forget that there are little periods all over the place. But... see that yellow line toward the right that starts at the bottom and goes most the way up? Imagine that's a solid line, like an error is causing a little yellow line about two pixels wide to show up in that exact same spot when and if there's an error. Doesn't show up anywhere else, no matter what; and it's either all there or it's not there at all, so it's not like a streak or something.

[zorra_chiflada]

and it's only at that time of day?

[abcdefz]

It's only with "night" pictures -- any time it's "nighttime" (even if it's, say, 4:00 a.m.; you get the drift).

I play with all kinds of light correction and different settings and override the aperature and all that stuff. The closest I can come to replicating the problem is that it's a "night" picture and the lens includes or pretty nearly includes a light source of some sort -- though that's still no guarantee; some pictures have a light or reflected light featured right in the frame and it's fine.

It's weird.

[abcdefz]

Aw, crud. the library's system is about to boot me off. I have a couple of minutes left.