CCD Repair

Sonny Tech in corporation with CCD Experts the United States and Europe offers you the most cost efficient solution for pixels problems in SONY broadcast and professional cameras.

For those of us who have no experience with these problems from their own experience, first some pixel trivia.

Every CCD-block has faulty pixels; it’s almost impossibly to manufacture one without defective pixels.
Most of the faulty pixels show up as white dots in a black background.
Defective pixels do increase in brightness, as the camcorder gets warmer.
Selecting a higher gain will increase the brightness of the pixels as well.
The brightness of a faulty pixel might fluctuate over time.

In the right underneath screen dump various pixels faults are shown.

There are a couple of clear dots visible. This is the most common way the defective pixels show up. Sometimes there are more serious pixel problems and the pixel errors appear as a vertical line.

Normally the automatic pixel concealment function (APR) of the camera is able to compensate for the defective pixels. But as pixel problems progress with the age and use of the camera, there are getting more defective pixels in the CCD-block. Because of the increasing amount of defective pixels this function runs into its limits. One of the things this function is limited in is the amount of pixels it can compensate for.
After compensating the maximum amount of defective pixels it just stops compensating for new ones.

Our method overcomes this by transferring the pixel faults to a static memory that is built in the camera from factory. The advantage of this is that the APR gets emptied and is able to resume its function again.

The advantages

As we do have such good experience with the method we offer some unique warranties

If we are not able to repair your CCD-block, we don’t charge you! We got so much confidence with this method that we can proudly say that we are capable of repairing 97% of the cameras that are offered for service. The remaining 3% have mainly damage caused by lasers.
We give a one (1) year warranty on repairs that we have done! That means that when new pixel problems occur and the APR is not capable of repairing it we will use our method to repair it again.
As we repair your CCD block in your camera, the look of the camera remains unchanged.

Furthermore we offer

A cost efficient solution for pixel problems. Our repair has a flat rate independent of the type of camera.
To reduce shipping costs even further you can send the CCD-block only (please call us beforehand though)
A very short turnaround time, in most cases only 4-5 working days.
A dealer network throughout our territories that can arrange shipping from your country to our office in the Netherlands and can take care of import/export issues.

This service is available for the following cameras/camcorders

BVP : 7P, 7AP, 70P,70ISP, 90P, 370, 375, 550, 570, 700 ,750, 900, 950
BVW : 300, 300AP, 400, 400AP, D600P
DSR : 300P, 300AP, 500WSP
DXC : 537, 537A, 637, D30, D30WSP
DNW : 7P, 9P, 9WSP, 90WSP
DVW : 700P, 700WSP, 707P, 709WSP, 790WSP

Of course we can also handle all the widescreen models and

the Thomson / Philips / Ikegami equivalents of the mentioned cameras.

As new camera types are constantly added, please don’t hesitate to contact us if your camera is not in the list.

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