Black camera screen on 5c

[WHBAppleGeek]

I have a fairly new iPhone 5c (a few weeks) and out of no where today I went to take a picture and the screen was black. I tried resetting and rebooting. Sometimes the commands on the top and bottom work but usually it's frozen. It looks like this was a hardware issue when it first came out ... Anyone had this issue with the 5c? Any ideas for fixing? Not near an Apple Store so hoping I can get this figured out!

 

[TruckdriverSean]

I've had it happen a couple of times since iOS 8. For me this was a rare occurrence. 10 or 15 seconds later I would unlock the phone, and it would work normal again.

If it's happening consistently for you, I'd bring it in to have it looked at.

 

[Taki]

That happened to me occasionally on 5s after iOS8. I was able to get out of it if I took picture anyway (in my case I was able to see the shutter button). Then the screen went back to normal.