Ricoh Global issues service advisory By
Michael R. Tomkins, The Imaging Resource (Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 09:28 EDT)Much as we predicted at the start of the week, service advisories for cameras with failing CCD image sensors continue to appear almost on a daily basis.
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Japanese consumer electronics and office automation company Ricoh Co. Ltd. has now published a service advisory on its global website that mirrors similar advisories from Canon, Fujifilm, Konica Minolta, Nikon and Sony. Ricoh's advisory describes the problem as follows:
"When the product is used in camera mode, the LCD panel exhibits either a distorted image or no image."
As with the other companies, Ricoh says it will offer free repair of this problem for certain products, regardless of warranty status. Ricoh's list of affected cameras is:
