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Interesting Sensor Death, Second Incident

About a year ago the sensor on my T1 died without reason, and began outputting pictures that were very dark, and had severely blown highlights:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/jkenny1209/album_2/DS . . .
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/jkenny1209/album_2/DS . . .

Now, just last week my relative's T1 died with a different type of defect: At first the preview and video functions looked fine, with intermittent noise or flashes of the screen, but the photo function was completely useless, outputting images with every other line bright whitish purple, much like the color of the blown highlights on my camera. A few days after this, the camera began showing symptoms exactly like mine did, a cutting of the highlights, which look to be happening exactly halfway through the histogram (when I hit the display button), pushing back the signal and thus blowing anything with a value of 127+ and making everything below too dark. All this in addition to the previous problem of every other line being destroyed:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/jkenny1209/album_2/DS . . .
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/jkenny1209/album_2/DS . . .

(With flash)
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/jkenny1209/album_2/DS . . .

Also noted is it appears to be holding a bit of the previous image taken, and imposing it on the next image.

Clearly there's not much I can do about this, but I've isolated the problem to the sensor, as I've replaced the entire lens unit from my camera to this one, and the symptoms of mine were found in this unit, and vice versa.

I find it a little disconcerting that the sensor has died on BOTH of these T1's, and I question the life of the sensors on newer Sony cameras. I have not really experienced anything of this sort, is it normal for CCD's to have a limited life of about 5 years (approximately how long it took for these cameras to show symptoms)?

Justin Kenny
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:50:56 +0000

My Cybershot T1 just started acting up last week. I've had it 4.5 years or so. I'm wondering if its the same problem as yours?

My photos aren't as clear as yours tho! Here is an example of a photo taken without the flash:
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/cdngydr/misc/?action=v . . .

If I turn on the flash, the screen looks like the above, but the photo has somewhat of a clearer image.

Took it to the Sony store and they said I'm looking at $100 just to send it away to look at it. So, my hubby opened the back to see what we could see. We'd love to find some schematics for this thing - is there any out there?

Oh, a small pin, about 1/2 inch long fell out! Not a screw, just a pin-like thing. we think it came from the side where the flash is.

Anyhow, I get some cool pics now!

acdngydr
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:30:02 +0000

Looks like a CCD failure. Search for something along the line of Sony CCD failure on this web site.

Chieh Cheng
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:19:45 +0000

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