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More problems for Sony: digital camera recalls now

Problems with the CCDs in eight models of Sony digital still camera could mean the inability to take clear pictures or any photos at all, the company said Friday.

Sony has found the CCD in eight of its cameras sold worldwide between September 2003 and January 2005 could become faulty. The models are the DSC-F88, DSC-M1, DSC-T1, DSC-T11, DSC-T3, DSC-T33, DSC-U40 and the DSC-U50.

Problems have generally been reported by users in countries where the weather is hot, said Tomio Takizawa, a spokesman for the Tokyo company. Sony will repair the camera at no charge if it shows the problem, he said.

Friday’s announcement broadens a problem first reported by Sony in October 2005. At that time the company listed 20 models of digital still camera with the same potential fault and offered replacements.

Sony is one of the world’s largest producers of CCD image sensors, which are the chips that sit behind the lens of the camera and convert light into electronic pulses. Because its sensors are used by other companies, the October 2005 problems reached beyond Sony and potentially touched more than 100 models of digital still camera.

At that time several other digital camera makers including Canon, Konica Minolta, Nikon, and Fujifilm announced plans to replace faulty CCDs for problems similar to those described by Sony.

It’s the latest in a string of quality control problems to hit the Japanese consumer electronics giant. Earlier this year problematic metallic particles inside Sony-made batteries caused several fires and led to laptop computer makers recalling or offering to replace around 9.6 million laptop batteries. Sony expects the battery problems will cost it around ¥51.2 billion (US$440 million).

In the wake of the battery problems Sony assigned Makoto Kogure, who was the head of its TV division, to oversee product quality and safety. It was the first time that such a high-level member of staff had taken that position at Sony.

— Martyn Williams

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• I purchased a sony cyber shot smart zoom DSC-p93 last year and it shows the flash is on but wont flash and i was wondering if they have a bulb in them that could of blown
  Thank You
  Brenda

  Posted by Brenda on 06/11/27 at 11:14 AM

• I purchased a DSC-P12 in 2003, and this year the screen went, and it no longer took focused photos.

  My friend’s DSC-P10 that was purchased at around the same time has done exactly the same thing about a month later. Has Sony recalled any of these cameras.

  I have since bought a Sony DSC-N1, are they recalling this?

  Posted by Marcus Jupe on 06/11/28 at 03:42 AM

• My dad has bought a DSC-P12 camera. He couldn’t take pictures anymore since 6 weeks ago. Sony repaired this camera for free. Now it works again!
  I also have the same camera and since last week I also couldn’t take pictures any more. Sony will repair this for free, they said.

  Posted by Marco on 06/12/08 at 05:47 PM

• I have a Sony DSC V1 which was fine until a couple months ago. Then the pictures started to have vertical streaks in them usually starting from some horizontal line in the picture. It seemed to fix itself for awhile but now the pictures look smeary and totally unrecognizable. Any ideas what this might be?

  Posted by John on 07/01/03 at 11:55 PM

• my sony cyber-shot dsc-F717 has been great for me untill recently were it stop taking pictures.

  Posted by peter on 07/03/13 at 03:32 AM

• Hullo fellows !,

  I have a sony smart zoom DSC-P10

  It stopped taking good pictures about a year ago !

  It somtimes makes a picture , but mostly blurred abstracts

  where do I send it to be repaired ?

  I paided $600.00 plus for this camera and really wish it

  still worked , I believe I have to box it came in .

  thank you so much .

  karl rosell

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  Posted by karl rosell on 07/12/17 at 08:06 AM

• I purchased a Sony Cyber-shot, Model DSC-T1 October 5, 2004 in Saint Thomas.  It quit working this past week.  I have reset the camera but it did not help.  The screen doesn’t show photos—just a blank screen.  What would cause this? Need to know if this is one of the cameras with a recall notice.  S/N is 1612424.

  Posted by R. Kjellander on 08/05/05 at 11:30 PM