From: "Brian Walters"
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:17 +0200, "Boris Liberman" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 3/2/2011 4:56 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Paul Stenquist<[email protected]>
wrote:
> >
> > You don't have to hold the camera steady.
> >> Paul
> >
> > But then you will have blurry stains.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Well, no, Dave. The stains are inside the sensor assembly, so they will
> be sharp...
Does this make the problem a Sony quality control issue rather than a
Pentax one?
Just wondering (or is that wandering....?)
That's a thought. I have a Canon A60 point 'n shoot that was part of a
massive recall for bad Sony sensors. If I remember it affected sensors
used by Canon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax and Sony cameras at the time (2005
- 2006).
There was something about the glue that attached the sensor to its
backing reacting with humidity in the air and eating into the sensor
itself. Couldn't have taken a lot of humidity because I had the camera
with me out in the desert almost all of the time until it failed.
And there was another recall for Sony cameras a couple of years later.
Sony assumed the first round of problems with the glue would only affect
sensors mounted on a plastic backing, but later found it also affected
sensors mounted on a ceramic backing.
According to Sony the problem only affected 0.4% of the sensors they
manufactured.
There IS a precedent for Sony providing bad quality sensors to other
manufacturers.
Disclaimer: I have a certain bias against the Sony brand based on past
experience. I have never owned a Sony consumer electronics product that
lasted for more than one day past the expiration of the warranty.
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