Problems with the figure of speech pick - up in eight models of Sony digital still camera could mean the inability to take clear pictures or any photos at all , the company enjoin Friday .
Sony has set up the CCD ( tutelage coupled gimmick ) 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 , enjoin Tomio Takizawa , a spokesman for the Tokyo company . Sony will repair the camera at no mission if it shows the trouble , he said .
Friday ’s announcement broadens a job first reported by Sony in October 2005 . At that time the company listed 20 framework of digital still camera with the same potential shift and offered .
Sony is one of the globe ’s largest producer of CCD image sensors , which are the chips that sit behind the lens system of the camera and convert light into electronic pulses . Because its sensing element are used by other company the October 2005 problem pass on beyond Sony and potentially touched more than 100 model of digital still tv camera .
At that time several other digital camera makers including Canon , Konica Minolta , Nikon , and Fuji Photo Film announced plans to exchange faulty CCDs for job similar to those described by Sony .
It ’s the latest in a twine of quality control problems to hit the Japanese consumer electronics colossus . Earlier this class problematic metallic particles inside Sony - made barrage caused several fires and lead to laptop computing gadget makers ( including Apple ) recall or proffer to supercede around 9.6 million laptop batteries . Sony expect the battery problems will cost it around $ 440 million .
In the Wake Island of the electric battery trouble Sony attribute Makoto Kogure , who was the psyche of its TV division , to manage product timber and safety . It was the first time that such a high - level member of faculty had pack that side at Sony .
