Helix rear camera stripes

Rear camera is putting  a stripe in pictures. 
Works fine for video, preview of still photos perfect.Take the picture and as the photos "swooshes" to the left, you see that the saved image has a stripe about a third of the way up.  For some reason, the saved image is copying the bottom 5% or so of the image, and "pasting" that slightly offset into the bottom third of the photo.
Taking a PrtSc copies a perfct image into the clipboard, (includes camera icons).
Changing image aspect, disablig Camera Plus does nothing.
At least three other people posted on a Microsoft page about this, seems to have arrived with 8.1 upgrade.
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling both drivers, no joy?
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Never mind.  Solved here:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/Helix-Rear-camera-picture-malformed-but...
Apparently I should have used the term "malformed" instead of "stripes" when searching.  

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