11 Jun
2010
11 Jun
'10
5:57 a.m.
On 10/06/10 23:06, Eric Smith wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
In this case the cameras consisted of two PCBs -- the main board with
the CMOS sensor and controller chip, and a switch board with the mode
switch and power switch.
The cameras had been liquid-damaged and sold as a lot. I replaced a
couple of connectors, cleaned the PCBs, and managed to make a few good
cameras out of a box of bad ones. From the rest, I scavenged the lens
assembly and sensor. Those are in my junkbox waiting for a suitable
project... I'm thinking of strapping one to a P8079HP image intensifier
and building a night-vision camera of some description. The lenses are
"semi-fixed" focus -- you can refocus them by loosening a screw and
twisting the front of the lens, then replacing the locking screw.
If I could get my sticky paws on a Kodak Ektapro high-speed camera
assembly (just the sensor head and data cable), it'd be a
several-thousand FPS high-speed night-vision camera :)
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Hmmm.. The only digital camera [1] I've seen
inside seemed to contain a
BGA packaged chip, another PQFP chip and some bits for the flash circuit.
And the lense/CCD unit, of course. It didn't look very very repairable.
Just
as repairable as any other piece of consumer electronics these
days. As always, you have to have the right tools for the job. In this
case, the repair process generally requires a credit card.