If you are like one of an estimated 75 million owners of a digital camera, at some point in time, your camera will more than likely develop one or more problems and would be in need of digital camera repair. Common problems include cracked LCDs, broken battery doors, jammed lenses or board level problems.

There are a set of digital camera models however, that develop their own unique problems, all stemming back to a batch of defective CCDs that Sony produced and used in these camera models.

If your camera takes only solid black photos, or blurry pink/purple photos, call your manufacturer and ask them if the camera is on the CCD recall list today! If you have a camera that is on the recall list that is not yet having issues, it will develop them in the future so it’s best to get it sent in and repaired now before the recall comes to an end!

Let’s begin with what is the CCD? A CCD is a Charged-Coupled Device, that “enables the transportation of analog signals through successive stages and are used as a form of memory or delaying samples of analog signals.”

Now for that in English: In the digital camera world, CCDs are used by the camera to capture the image that is shown by the lens, translate it into a digital signal and send it along to the image processor to be converted and saved to the memory card.

What’s the big deal with the faulty CCD? Sony released many CCDs for various digital camera manufacturers between 2003 and 2005 that went into at least a couple dozen camera models. And in higher heat and humidity conditions, the CCDs would begin to fail, producing some crazy looking images or causing a black screen to show on your camera (Before you starting thinking your camera has a bad CCD, PLEASE check and make sure your “display” button is not pressed and just shutting the LCD off).

So what does this mean for the consumer? Simple: If you own a camera that is covered under the Sony digital camera repair recall, and your camera develops a problem as described above, you can generally send your camera to the manufacturer and get the CCD repaired for free. The largest affected manufacturers are Canon, Konica Minolta (now part of Sony) and Sony. If you need to get your Sony camera repair these manufacturers are standing behind their products and fixing their faulty CCDs. At one time the manufacturers were just replacing the cameras with new models, but lately it seems, they have gotten the CCDs fixed and are replacing them for you. You get to keep using the camera you love, and now with a new CCD it will keep working for years to come!

As Sony is the original sensor manufacturer for all of the other manufacturers’ products listed (and given the vast array of products that they manufacture themselves) it should come as no great surprise that Sony has by far, the greatest number of affected products. This should not be taken as indicating any inherent deficiency in Sony products beyond the now discontinued sensors.

Don’t toss out your digital camera if it has a defective CCD and is on this recall list, have it fixed at no charge! The best part about getting your camera repair under this recall is that they will inspect, test, calibrate and update the camera as well as replacing the CCD with an updated version that will not fail as the first one did!

I left the SLR at home and brought my compact digital camera along. The higher your cameras resolution, the more flexibility you have later editing your image. So now I’ve been shopping for a new compact digicam with at least 7 mega pixels.

1) Digital Camera Review Casio Exilim EP-Z750

The 7.2MP EP-Z750 is the smallest, lightest and thinnest camera in the group. The back of the camera is almost all LCD screen, 2.5″ worth, it’s extra large, ideal for composing and viewing your shots. The Casio Exilim Ep-Z750 view finder is quite small, thank you for the big LCD screen. It’s got a quality 640×480 movie mode at 30 frames per second. Weight 4.5 oz.

2) Nikon Coolpix 7900 Digital Camera Review

The 7.1MP Coolpix 7900 is small, light and easy to use and like the Casio camera reviewed above, can be considered an ultra compact. It’s large, bright 2″ LCD display is perfectly visible outdoors in the sun.

The Nikon Coolpix 7900 has a 3x optical zoom, a large battery capacity for taking hundreds of pictures, and a good flash. 640×480 movies at a full 30fps and Nikon’s new Face Priority autofocus will automatically detect a face in the portrait and focus on it. The 7900 doesn’t have manual control. The Nikon Coolpix 7900 is a small easy to use point and shoot camera with high-resolution. Weight 5.3oz

3) Canon PowerShot SD550 Digital Camera Review

With an extra large 2.5″ LCD screen and optical viewfinder., The 7.1MP Canon Powershot SD550 is an attractive, lightweight, thin, ultra-compact unit . It uses 13 shooting modes including auto and manual. This camera is fast! Shooting 2 photos per second till you use up all your memory. The movie mode is 640×480 at a nice 30 frames per second.

4) Olympus C-7000 Zoom Digital Camera Review

The 7.1MP, C-7000 is a very good looking compact digital camera with solid performance. The Olympus C-7000 Zoom has a large 2″ LCD that is excellent even outside. Zoom is in the name, because this beauty has a 5x optical zoom, and a 6x digital zoom with the 35mm camera equivalency of a 39mm-190mm lens. The pop-up flash works good and easy to read menus make the C-7000 fairly easy to navigate. It has the new Olympus TruePic Turbo Image Processor for fast cycle times and excellent details. The C-7000 Zoom has 11 shooting modes plus manual operation. It’s PictBridge Compatible for easy printing without a computer. This little Oly is tough to beat with it’s powerful zoom, small size and high resolution. Weight 7.07oz

5) Digital Camera Review Sony CyberShot DSC-W7

The 7.2 MP DSC-W7 is bigger than the ultra compact Casio Exilim its considered a compact digital camera. A manual mode with aperture and shutter speed controls with a photo exposure preview. The Sony CyberShot DSC-W7 is a very nice camera that takes good hi-resolution pictures and is easy to use. You will love the photos from all the cameras here.  In traditional Sony style, this small camera is well thought out and easy to use everyday. The 3x optical zoom lens is a Carl Zeiss equivalent to a 28-114mm lens. No expensive batteries to buy ever, it comes with 2 AA rechargeable batteries.

Well im showing what software comes with the SONY W290 theres 4 applications but 3 really the 4th is a PMB guide shows things explains, but the other is PMB, PMB Launcher, Music Transfer. I didn’t get time yet to really sit down and work with these but they look pretty decent to mess with i say. But i do explain them

Sony Ericsson Satio - Camera UI Walkthrough

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC TX1 digital camera