Typical CCD

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Phenomena

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The following phenomena may appear on the monitor screen while you are using a CCD* color video camera. These phenomena stem from the high sensitivity of the CCD image sensors, and do not indicate a fault within the camera.

Vertical smear

A “smear” may appear to extend vertically from very bright subjects, as shown below.

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Overview

Video monitor

Pale vertical smear

screen

 

 

 

 

 

Very bright subject

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(such as an electric

 

 

 

 

lamp, fluorescent

 

 

 

 

lamp, sunlight, or

 

 

 

 

strong reflected light)

This phenomenon is common to CCD imaging elements using an interline transfer system, and is caused when electric charge induced by infrared radiation deep within the photo sensor is transferred to the resistors.

Aliasing

When shooting fine stripes, straight lines or similar patterns, the lines may become slightly jagged.

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Blemishes

 

A CCD image sensor consists of an array of

 

individual picture elements (pixels). A

 

malfunctioning sensor element will show up

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as a single pixel blemish in the image. This

 

is generally not a problem.

 

White speckles

When you shoot a poorly illuminated object at a high temperature, small white dots may appear all over the entire screen image.

* CCD: Charge-Coupled Device

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