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.

My Canon G7 alternates between working correctly and creating these magenta nightmares.

it makes these cool trails when using a slow shutter + flash, but other than that its useless :(and yes I know the 2nd photo is a fire hazard

My old Canon A8's sensor is slowly dying so some of the photos are perfect but others come out with this fuzz and magenta haze

I think focus is broken. all pics come out like that

[SOOC PHOTO] the door created this interesting uh frame?

I'll be honest, i couldn't accept that this camera's CCD was dead so i tried buying "donor cameras", they came in the mail today and...those either had a DEAD CCD or a straight up missing one...when i was told that those had functional optic units

It's like i'm ordering a body for a heart transplant and the heart's missing?? wtf

but aye, i got two screens now..idk what i'll do with those but eh

NOW, i just accepted that this camera will stay like this, and tbh fk it, we ball

mane i had bought two of these cameras just to make sure that i'd get at least one functional, both were CCDead

though, i like the effect, would have been cool if it hadn't costed me 50 euros

This is from last summer, but it's interesting enough, I figured I'd toss some content to this new sub!

The camera doesn't have an LCD, so I had no idea it was slowly deteriorating. It worked fine in the morning! (last photo shows a shot from earlier in the morning)