Can Sun Damage CCD ?

[jim kelly]

This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

 

[Mofongo]

Jim Kelly wrote:
This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

I have always heard that you can damage a CCD by aiming the lens at the sun.

I've done it for sunsets etc...with no problems but I wouldn't recommend aiming at a blazing sun. But than again, why would you?

Bob
--www.pbase.com/mofongo'A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse'

 

[Chazzw]

This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

When over the Xmas holliday, I snapped some pics with my 2100 and had a feeling immediately, these sunset pics cannot be be good for the ccd. Sure enough, UZI started underexposing and overexposing on about 10% of my shots. Then it started the problem on about 30-40 % of my pics. My UZI is now in repair !!
chazz

 

[Ergo]

If you were to actually touch the sun with it, I believe that it would cause some damage that is not covered under either the standard or an extended warrantee. Correct me if I am wrong.--Peace ... ErgoSpend so much time improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. c3000z, c2100uz, some crayons and a Hoover. See ya in the Small Appliance aisle!www.pbase.com/ergo/ergoimages

 

[Kiriakos C2100 GR]

This is not logical at all ...
If we, with the digital cameras start to worry about that ..
Then all the digital video cameras they must have only one day of life ..

In the UZ you can do as 16 secs max exposion , with digital video cameras you can do as many hours you like ..
Both have CCDs , both work by the same philosophy .

Even my self i have the camera for service , becauce of a burned pixel , and i thowt that was my fault ,as i tried the 16 seconds exposion ..

But no it was not , i check even my first picture that i had take from the day one , and the damn pixel was there ..

This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

 

[Inigo Montoya]

To capture a sequence of shots during an eclipse?

Haven't risked it, but I wonder what a straight on sun shot would
look like from the E-100 at F8, 1/10,000th.

Jim Kelly wrote:
This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

I have always heard that you can damage a CCD by aiming the lens at
the sun.

I've done it for sunsets etc...with no problems but I wouldn't
recommend aiming at a blazing sun. But than again, why would you?

Bob

--
http://www.pbase.com/mofongo
'A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse'

 

[Leo]

Jim,

The lens is acting the same way as a magnifying glass but much better quality. I think that every one have used a magnifying glass to burn holes in a piece of paper or marks on a piece of wood. I have read that the CCD color mask will gradually loose the color (RGB) with the time. How long it takes 5 or 10 or 20 year I do not know. Let's wait for the experts.
Leo

This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

 

[jwilliams77474]

Well, I try to avoid leaving my cameras sitting in the Sun, since the heat would probably be detrimental, but you have to hold the magnifying glass in place for a while to get paper to burn. Maybe if you propped the shutter open damage would be expected but any reasonable picture taken aimed at the Sun would necessarily involve a tight aperature and very fast shutter and some subject matter in the trajectory.

And then there was that story back in the sixties about those trippers who went blind staring at the Sun. Turned out to be a baseless scare story.

John W.

This guy seems to think so but I have never heard it suggested before.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=2236442

 

[Kiriakos C2100 GR]

Let me to disagree ,as the size of the CCD is not that small as one pin head ,and there is not possible the lenc to collect that amound of energy.
Plus the focus ability of the cameras ,does not allow that phenomeno to happen .

I do not wan to believe that i payed 900$ dollars ,just to get one magnifying glass

Jim,
The lens is acting the same way as a magnifying glass but much
better quality. I think that every one have used a magnifying glass
to burn holes in a piece of paper or marks on a piece of wood. I

 

[Leo]

Jim,
The lens is acting the same way as a magnifying glass but much
better quality. I think that every one have used a magnifying glass
to burn holes in a piece of paper or marks on a piece of wood. I