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Camera image quality goes down hill over time?


9 years 10 months ago #383080 by Linda Duncan
Nearly everything on this planet goes downhill over time.  I was just wondering will a camera that is let's say 3 years old take a sharp of a photo as it did when it was brand new?  This is assuming there is no dirt on the sensor.  What I'm wondering is, if the sensor ever goes bad due to age?
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9 years 10 months ago #383093 by garyrhook
Other than perhaps pixels going bad over time, no. Solid state electronics fail suddenly. And lenses don't change their optical quailty (assuming that they are taken care of, that is).
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9 years 10 months ago #383094 by No Show
Good question, perhaps if the camera had massive usage?  I'm talking crazy use? 
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9 years 10 months ago #383096 by gdbrekke
Unless there is damage to the sensor, I don't think so. Two practical examples:

I recently sold a Nikon D200 purchased in 2006. It was 7 years old, with about 90,000 exposures and the pictures were as sharp and true to color as the day it was bought.

One of my current Canon 1d Mk4 bodies has nearly 150,000 exposures and is 4 years young. I've seen no change in image quality over that time.

That said, I clean the sensors regularly with the VisibleDust EZ swabs and send my Canons in for a clean and check every year. Canon has never reported back an issue, but it gives me some confidence knowing they were looked over.

Cheers,
Gregg
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9 years 10 months ago #383099 by Scotty

gdbrekke wrote: Unless there is damage to the sensor, I don't think so. Two practical examples:

I recently sold a Nikon D200 purchased in 2006. It was 7 years old, with about 90,000 exposures and the pictures were as sharp and true to color as the day it was bought.

One of my current Canon 1d Mk4 bodies has nearly 150,000 exposures and is 4 years young. I've seen no change in image quality over that time.

That said, I clean the sensors regularly with the VisibleDust EZ swabs and send my Canons in for a clean and check every year. Canon has never reported back an issue, but it gives me some confidence knowing they were looked over.

Cheers,
Gregg


CPS is great.  I remember when they were servicing my 1d mark III and 5d's.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
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9 years 10 months ago #383318 by ThatNikonGuy
Mechanically, yes.  But image quality, I don't see this happening enough to be measurable 
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9 years 10 months ago #383371 by Joves
ANother one with the choir here. Nope. If the sensor is going to go bad as Gary said it would be dead. or hot pixels showing up. Or it would start banding as well in some cases, but they usually quit working at all more often. 
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9 years 10 months ago #383389 by Sawyer

ThatNikonGuy wrote: Mechanically, yes.  But image quality, I don't see this happening enough to be measurable 


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9 years 10 months ago #383452 by Linda Duncan
Thank you for the answers!
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9 years 10 months ago #383462 by Screamin Scott
I've only had one sensor fail... On an old RCA point & shoot from around 2002 (something like a 2.3 mp model)... Other than that, no issues with any other digital camera, be they a point & shoot mirrorless or DSLR...
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9 years 10 months ago #383468 by MajorMagee
There are things that would have a rapid effect like exposure to intense radiation. In most cases the changes that do occur from natural diffusion in the chip will be slow enough to never be noticed. With very accurate measurements and the passage of many years one might find a shift in color channel response, or ISO, but probably not sharpness.
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9 years 10 months ago #383565 by David Hutnik
I don't see why it would, aside from the shutter, there isn't any mechanical pieces?  
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9 years 10 months ago #383588 by Screamin Scott
You are forgetting the mirror  assembly on DSLR's... That's mechanical as well... As  are on board flash units that have to be raised.
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9 years 10 months ago #383694 by Tony Imaging
:agree:   good point  
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9 years 10 months ago #383791 by garyrhook

Screamin Scott wrote: You are forgetting the mirror  assembly on DSLR's... That's mechanical as well... As  are on board flash units that have to be raised.


The OP was about gradual degradation of image quality. I think most mechanical failures are abrupt, but they are not doing to impact image quailty "over time".

So, as Joey on Friends points out, it's a "moo" point.
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