From: Thibouille > warning: 4MB file > > http://users.skynet.be/thibouille/lethi.jpg > > There's this purplr thing eveywhere. What the heck is that and how to > care about if it can be avoided. This camera never made such kind of > pictures before. > It is warning it is dying? > > The problem is defenitely intermitent. Sometimes OK, sometimes purple. > I'm clueless. Sony sold a bunch of bad image chips to various manufacturers a few years back (wasn't intentional ... they didn't find out they were bad until the chips started failing).
I had one in a Canon Point 'n Shoot digital the US Army issued. That's what its images looked like when it first started to fail. And it was intermittent as well ... until it finally quit altogether. Check with Pentax. This may be covered by the Sony recall, which has been extended and updated AFAIK. The Army told me to trash the Canon, but I just dropped it into a box of junk I shipped home. Later, when I heard about the Sony chip recall I sent it to Canon who repaired it under warranty. The Army didn't want the camera back because they'd already written it off as destroyed. I've still got it, and it was still working yesterday. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
