Kyocera also felled by faulty CCDs
Oh noes! It seems Kyocera has failed to escape the CCD fate that has recently befallen eight of Sony's Cyber-shots and four of Nikon's Coolpix cameras. Kyocera has just announced that its Finecam M400R, M410R and SL400R cameras, released in March 2004, are all at risk for CCD defects and failures. In response, Kyocera is providing free repairs to any such cameras until March 2010, and is also offering free checkups to such affected models. Kyocera isn't saying who's responsible for the CCD manufacturer, but the similarities to the problems and causes in the cases of Nikon and Sony mean its most likely the same CCDs: defective Sony manufacturing strikes once again.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve @ Feb 5th 2007 7:09PM
I just sent in my Canon camcorder for repair because of a CCD problem. The repair is free, but it's still a hassle going a week or so without my camera. Thanks a bunch, Sony. You just lost another customer.
paolo @ Feb 5th 2007 7:29PM
but yet the funny thing is that you own a canon
Steve @ Feb 10th 2007 11:54PM
Yes, I do. Sony and Nikon aren't the only ones to issue a CCD alert. Canon's CCDs were also manufactured by Sony.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/konica-minolta-canon-nikon-fujifilm-also-issue-ccd-alerts/
So, yeah...that's pretty funny.
Jake Lockley @ Feb 5th 2007 9:04PM
I'm calling shenanigans. It siounds to me like teh best any of these camera companies can do is make a disposable CCD camera since there isn't a single one that doesn't have this dreaded "CCD solder degradation". Sound like shenanigans to me - their products at best last if you store them ina cool place or don't leave them on long enough to warm up the solder. Yet we are expected to have to suffer for what amounts to products unfit to sell. Can anyone say, use better solder? I bought a $400 digital camera in 2001 that was a brick 3 years later because of a CCD solder failure. Cannon tells me it'll cost me $149 to them repair it. I have a Pentax SLR that I bought in 1982 and it still works perfectly. Shenanigans!