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!
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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!