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So it is highly a CMOS problem.
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Posted: 2007-10-20 08:38:38
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..well, you know.. today that means it's a software problem. You don't get transistors "sort of" working nowadays. So if it's something hardware, it could be a weakness on the light- sensors, uneven current, or some unisolated curcuit, etc. And that's the kind of thing you check for easily on beforehand. Or at least manage to isolate, like with the early k750s.

Or else it's a programming issue, or at least something that can be fully fixed with software changes. Which is probably what SE believes it is, and so on.
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Posted: 2007-10-20 11:46:18
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Does anyone have a different/weaker battery that will fit? Like the one used in the prototype or sumthin'?

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Posted: 2007-10-20 12:38:26
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@jabbadabba..
ouch. What if that fixes it.. *cringe*
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Posted: 2007-10-20 18:49:12
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Actually guys, I've always thought it might just be a lens issue. Maybe one of the coatings was incomplete or what not. That might explain how zooming in reduces this problem. But then again, if this is a digital zoom (which I think it is), then all it's doing is "cropping" the screen in a sense and enlarging. Still I hope they can fix this soon. I'm going to contact Sony again to see if they want to handle it.
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Posted: 2007-10-22 06:11:15
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yap its digital zoom.
I think its a hardware problem. update didnt solve anything.
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Posted: 2007-10-22 10:53:14
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The digital zoom will of course fix the green tint, you will simply be cropping the picture taken by the cmos.

I believe that this is a firmware issue myself - rather than a hardware one - simply because a hardware issue with the cmos would not be consisten for all users - differing batches of the sensors would work better than others. As far as I am aware this is a issue for all p1 user at this time.

I for one am confident that this can be sorted with a update from SE. Fingers crossed!
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Posted: 2007-10-22 11:00:04
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Hm, someone able to check if the tint goes away when using the BST-33 battery that was in the prototype?
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Posted: 2007-10-22 13:54:08
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just tested with a 33 and the green tint is still there in all its glory. its gotta be the fw - SE wouldn't have changed the cam from what they used in the proto - would they?
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Posted: 2007-10-22 14:12:47
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I tested my new P1 on a white area of the wall, at 30cm range.

I took one picture in the horizontal, then rotated the phone 180 degrees and took another picture of the same place in the wall.

This way I try to eliminate possible interferences of light conditions on the wall, and also colour variations on the wall paint.

Comparing both pictures, I see no green tint and no perceptible differences.
In fact they are so similar the look like a copy of one another.

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Posted: 2007-10-22 17:29:28
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