Why does my Sony DSC-F828 sometimes produce striped, overexposed or mostly black images?

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My Sony DSC-F828 intermittently starts producing corrupted images after several shots. The symptoms are either:

  • a striped image that looks badly overexposed even at very short shutter speeds, or
  • a mostly black image with odd false/neon-like colors.

The issue also appears in the image preview on the LCD right after capture, so it does not seem to be caused by the memory card. Powering the camera off and on does not fix it. I also noticed it may happen more once I zoom past a certain point.

What kind of camera fault could cause this, and is there anything that can be done to fix it?

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The first one isn't a setting/exposure issue as there are stripes/lines across the picture.

From my technical experience, I'm willing to bet it's a faulty image sensor. If you Google images "faulty ccd", you can see very similar results.

This fault isn't necessarily caused by damage to the camera but just simply due to the image sensor failing.

Although I have seen a faulty shutter produce lines across the screen, this definitely looks like a CCD issue.

This also might be an interesting read.

EDIT: Sorry, I just realised that it's intermittent? Well, I would say that the sensor is over heating. The only thing that will fix it will be to replace the CCD.

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This looks much more like a hardware failure than a camera setting or exposure mistake. The striped frames and false-color/mostly black images are consistent with a failing image sensor, likely the CCD, or possibly a related sensor connection issue.

Because the corruption appears on the camera’s LCD preview immediately after capture, the memory card is very unlikely to be the cause. A shutter problem can sometimes create banding, but the color corruption points more strongly to the sensor itself. If it happens after several shots, heat may be making the fault show up more often.

The fact that zoom position seems related could mean internal movement or flexing is aggravating an already failing sensor assembly or cable, but it still points to a hardware issue rather than user error.

Practical fix: this generally requires professional repair, typically sensor/CCD replacement or inspection of the sensor connection. There is no menu setting likely to solve it.

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