DIGITAL CAMERA SENSOR ERROR

THE LARGEST RECALL IN THE HISTORY OF DIGITAL PHOTO CAMERA

Especially hardware errors are an unpleasant situation faced by almost every camera manufacturer. Problems or problems that are not in the old model can be seen in the new model, and innovations come with possible problems. Moreover, despite the development of product development and subsequent testing methods and the fact that it has been tried many times by people. In the fast and competitive camera industry, this seems inevitable and can happen to any manufacturer. Hardware problems noticed during the production process are corrected by looking at which serial numbered parts are affected. But overlooked, internal tests of the manufacturer or problems that a limited number of people in the testing process do not notice cause headaches after presentation to thousands of people. It disappoints not only manufacturers, but also customers who eagerly buy the product. Due to the defective operation of the new product or the fact that it does not show the desired full performance, manufacturers are trying to eliminate these undesirable situations with kindness. It also happens that customers sometimes experience waiting or lack of interest. There are cases when the customer has to pay the service fee if the product is sent for service.

Software problems are solved with firmware upgrades, and new features and improvements are added along with stable operation.

So much so that the reason why some models are launched as a new model with only minor upgrades is for no other purpose than to compensate for the problems encountered in the previous model.

I will touch on the biggest camera production problem encountered so far in this article, but it is quite left behind and perhaps the most annoying to customers during the period. The problem is a sensor problem that Decayed over time between 2002 and 2004, which appeared on many models of many brands, not just one brand.  Because they all used sensors produced by the same manufacturer with a similar production technique. in 2005, Imaging-Resource  had mentioned this topic on his site. Yes, SONY sensors have made many models of the era, and especially Canon, unusable.  Canon, Sony, Olympus, Nikon, Panasonic, Konica-Minolta, Kyocera and Ricoh have been affected by this situation and each company has announced its own service solution proposals.

This problem is that the CCD sensor used in digital photo and video cameras shows a distorted image or no image at all on the LCD panel and/or electronic viewfinder. Canon made an announcement about this malfunction on October 6, 2005. The cameras had to be sent to the service in order for the sensors to be changed. The problem started to appear about a year or two after the camera was purchased. The serial production numbers were not specified in the call-to-service announcements, the model and the problem were defined. This meant that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of cameras produced between 2002 and 2004 faced or would face the same problem.  The problem had nothing to do with the use of customers. Since malfunctions appeared and were reported over time, their production continued until it turned into a general and serious problem.

In addition, there were many customers who did not want to deal with them, except for those who made sensor changes using the advantage of transportation to the service point and living in big cities.

Canon is related to this malfunction October 6- 2005, October 31-2006, January 30- 2011 and made a service announcement on September 26- 2012. There are old announcements on Canon's archived official site (https://archive.org /) 

Canon refers to previous announcements in the service announcement dated September 26, 2012 on its official website and updates are being made.

 

 

I will share more information and my experiences about Canon. Because as a camera collector, I have bought many Canon digital cameras manufactured between 2002 and 2004, and I have observed the same problem in almost all of them.Dec. I persistently hoped to find a camera with the model in the list above, but it works. At flea Sundays, where the wanted one can not be found immediately.

THE CAMERAS OF MY COLLECTION WITH SENSOR ERRORS MANUFACTURED BETWEEN 2002/2004

CANON: SD100/DIGITAL IXUS II (4 PCS), S200/DIGITAL IXUS V2, PowerShot A95, Powershot A80 (Some models have been announced with different names in Japan, America and Europe.)

SONY: DSC P12

All of these cameras work on the screen, buttons, software and shutter. In Play mode, it shows the images on the card correctly, but the resulting image is either a black screen or consists of distorted colors and lines.

Here are sample images of the damaged sensor.

Canon PowerShot A95

Canon SD100

Canon SD100

Another Canon SD100

All of these cameras work on the screen, buttons, software and shutter. In Play mode, it shows the images on the card correctly, but the resulting image is either a black screen or consists of distorted colors and lines.

(There is also the same problem with the Canon S100 model. But this camera is a production of the year 2000.)

-SONY Handycam model camcorders produced in 1998 included an infrared night vision that would allow users to capture images in low-light environments. It was a development that was intended for use in recording nighttime wildlife footage. But during this recording, it accidentally spread on the Internet and from ear to ear as a video camera that can see inside people's clothes and turned into an urban legend. It had been reported that about 700,000 units had been affected. But this was not a recall. The tests showed that this was not true, as far as the naked eye could see under intense light and very thin clothes, it was even insignificant. But Sony accepted this as a mistake and presented the corrected new cameras to calm down the public, but did not touch the cameras on the shelves.