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Digital Camera Failures

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the on-their-best-behavior dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the past week, four major camera makers have quietly published service advisories admitting their digital cameras are dying. In each case, the flaw appears to involve Sony CCD sensors using epoxy packaging that eventually lets in moisture. Sony's own cameras are among those affected, and the company also has dozens of affected camcorder models. Sony is believed to be picking up the tab for the repairs for the other camera makers as well, regardless of warranty status. (If true, a laudable approach.) Given the large numbers of cameras that are potentially involved, this can't be good news for Sony, who apparently already is expecting losses, and who has also recently announced major layoffs."

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  1. HA! by VaticDart · · Score: 4, Funny

    My 10D's might CMOS sensor will dance on the scattered bones of your useless moisture-letting-in-CCDs!

    1. Re:HA! by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'll try to comfort my Powershot with this here vast pile of cash.

  2. Nintendo Fanboy Inside Us All by bleaknik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok. So... Sony posts losses for one quarter, and they lay off a bunch of people... It's now my responsibility as a Nintendo Fanboy to jump up and down and praise this as the death of my archnemesis right?

    Ehh. Who am I kidding. Apathy is too much damned work.

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  3. It has to be said... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny
    In the past week, four major camera makers have quietly published service advisories admitting their digital cameras are dying.


    Has Netcraft confirmed this?

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  4. Re:Grammar by DCstewieG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot article description ... FREE
    Grammar nazi correcting something that isn't wrong with something that is ... FREE
    Having that post moderated +1 Informative ... PRICELESS

  5. SORNY? by blankoboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Were these SONY or SORNY products? Perhaps people should be buying Magnetbox digital cameras and TV's. /obscure, simpons.

  6. Re:They're complex. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least they're usually not used for mission-critical applications.

    Digital cameras are used for pr0n!!!!! You don't get more misson-critical than that!

  7. Ruined picture by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    A friend of mine took a picture of his ass, and the entire middle was all messed up due to bad pixels, as if somebody put TNT up his ass. We complained to Sony, but all they did was post it online to scare off further complainers. It worked pretty damned well.

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  8. Re:Dammit!! by cei · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. One body for 35mm chrome (Velvia 50 or EPP), one for 35mm black & white (Tri-X), maybe another for infrared, Hasselblad backs loaded with 120 chrome and B&W (and Polaroid back with Type 665P/N), digital SLR at the minimum. Add to that the Holga, maybe a pinhole or two depending on format, lighting conditions, and the durability of the model. Then maybe I can leave the house for a shoot.

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  9. Re:They're complex. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine this happening to the Hubble.

    I'm trying, but I just can't imagine where the moisture is going to come from.

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  10. Re:They're complex. by Kjella · · Score: 4, Funny

    Digital cameras are used for pr0n!!!!! You don't get more misson-critical than that!

    Well, I suppose here on slashdot it can be a "once in a lifetime" opportunity ro record that...

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