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CCD Repair

VOCAS SALES & SERVICES UNIQUE CCD REPAIR PLAN

Vocas Sales & Services in corporation with Luckes Camera repair in the United States offer you the most cost efficient solution for pixels problems in SONY professional and broadcast cameras.

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

  • Every CCD-block has faulty pixels; it’s almost impossible 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 underneath screen dump various pixels faults are shown.

 

There are a couple of clear dots visible. This is the most common way defective pixels show up. Sometimes there are more serious pixel problems, that's the reason why 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 Vocas is not able to repair your CCD-block, we don’t charge you! We have so much confidence within this method that we can proudly say that Vocas is capable of repairing 97% of the cameras that are offered for service. The remaining 3% have mainly damage caused by lasers.
  • Vocas provides a one (1) year warranty on repairs that are done! That means that when new pixel problems occur and the APR is not capable of repairing it Vocas will use its unique method to repair it again.
  • When Vocas repairs a CCD block in a camera, the camera look remains unchanged.

 
Furthermore Vocas offers

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

 

The CCD 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 Vocas can also handle widescreen models including all Thomson / Philips / BTS / Ikegami equivalents of the mentioned Sony cameras.

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

For more information, also take a look at the attached PDF document at the bottom of this page.

 

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