John Sessoms wrote:
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).
My canon A80 had this problem but it didnt show up for several years...
I bought it in 2004... Canon fixed it for no charge and
of course free postage - I Think I showed the list one of the bizzare
photos it produced which is how I found out about it.
Sadly, the camera totally died this past year and I sold it for parts.
ann
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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