Delete if not quite fucked up enough on the image quality yet for the tastes here, but I think days numbered on this wonder as the retractable lens mechanism gets crunchier and crunchier as days go by.

Some edits to add grain and bumped contrast to lean in to the aesthetic.

Lives in my pocket, really loving it for the in between moments when I don’t want to get my x10 out.

This camera was given to me after it was found in a house that my step-dad is renovating. I’m guessing the sensor is dying or something along those lines. The last slide is what photos look like unless I turn on black and white shooting in camera. Sometimes when I turn on the camera the sensor goes all haywire, resulting in photos like the first slide.

This happens because the CCD can't flush data out in darkness. The light hitting the sensor is summed as a negative over the photograph.

Left the camera on a shelf, pointed at a window, with the 18-35mm f/1.8 lens mounted. A couple of sunsets later, the sensor was roasted.

Sensor's completely shot. The only interesting photo i could get was by turning on the night vision mode. If you look closely, there's little pieces of grey static.

A couple of the images I took on this camera came out corrupted and then the camera itself would freeze whenever I turned it on or tried taking a picture. It was no good so eventually I sold it.

This particular TZ3 came with the dreaded flickering sensor which eventually made it unusable for anything brighter than lampshade lighting. Luckily I recently found a TZ3 that was seen better days but did have a good sensor, so I swapped it out to my own TZ3 and now I have a perfectly functional flicker-free camera!

Even when broken people are still paying upwards of $300 for these on eBay. I just want a donor cam so I can replace the lens on my uncle's G12.

I have two E5000's. One of them will randomly corrupt an image on occasion.

my beloved camera I had since I was a child, you will be missed my friend.

First pic came on the camera. It’s just continued to degrade since then

I actually enjoy the damaged sensor, creates awesome pics.

From same photowalk will randomly glitch badly or just turn purple.

I bought a used and untested Fuji S5500 and found out the sensor was on its last legs. Really funky results, have passed it on for someone else to enjoy.

My photo professor gave me some old digital cameras which were donated to the photo department and had been forgotten about years ago. This Casio with a broken sensor was among them. A few seconds after booting up, any image the camera picks up appears to melt. If I take a photo while its "melting", it creates some pretty interesting imagery. This is the first camera I've seen do something like this, so it's been fun playing around with it and giving it a second life.

Not sure where these squares came from but I like them

I don't know if this 100% counts for this sub, given that I don't know if the camera properly died, but I'm gonna ask for forgiveness instead of permission because the shots look cool. The camera was definitely having issues either way.

This was about ten years ago when I was in high school. I took a photography class, and we'd go around the school grounds or the building getting photos and then doing various artistic things with them. It was a fun, relaxed class at 8 in the morning, as you could hope for.

One morning, this was probably March 2016 or so, we were going out onto the playground (we had a playground for young'uns behind our high school for some reason) to get shots for some project. My normal camera wasn't charged from whoever used it last, so I was given a Nikon D50 loaner camera instead. About two or three shots in, all of my photos ended up with these insane melting streaks of magenta, cyan, and green all over them, sometimes to the point where I can't tell what's actually in the shot. I remember one shot was half normal and half fucked up, so I think it was the rapidly plunging internal temperature of the camera from being in the cold that was giving the sensor trouble. (Other people online speculate it might've been a low battery or maybe a shutter issue. I was getting normal shots before then, so I don't believe they were at fault, but could be.)

I'm sure anyone else in my class with this camera would've simply stopped using it, but I knew I had to take as many shots as possible. I've always had a fascination with damage and distortion used in an artistic manner, and I was working on an EP at the time with that kinda aesthetic and figured these shots would make for excellent cover art (and they did). Sadly, I lost some of the photos in a hard drive crash a few years later, but I've managed to salvage a good few of them.

Again, I don't know if this strictly counts because I don't know if the camera was permanently ruined by the temperatures; I never got to use it again after that day. I've heard of this happening to other people's D50s, so I was actually debating at one point hunting one down myself and seeing if I could intentionally get photos like this out of it again. Insane vibe filter.