Introduction
The inside story of a compact digital camera from sony. This one belong to a friend of mine, and is actually broken, the shutter button broke.
Tools
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This is the Sony DSC-H2 we are going to tear down.
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It's a 6.0mpix, 12x optical zoom compact digital camera.
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It served well to the point at which the shutter button fell off.
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To tear it apart, we need a #0 Philips screwdriver only, thats very nice of you, Sony!
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Before you disassemble any camera, remove the batteries and wait a full day to make sure the capacitor is discharged
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Never use bare fingers or tools with metal handles near a high voltage capacitor which you are not certain its discharged!
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For safety reasons, find a screwdriver that has a plastic, wooden or other non-conducting handle
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The second photo shows a spark and a plasma cloud created by rapidly discharging a capacitor similar to the one in this camera. (the picture was taken at the technical university of Łódź, Poland, do not try this at home!)
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Now, let's start the ceremony!
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Remove the two screws at the bottom.
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The two on the right side.
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And the one on the left side
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There is one more screw at the right side of the flash lamp
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These 5 screws are identical, and unique to the outer shell of the camera.
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We may now remove the back shell, revealing the LCD and rear control panel
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The body is thick and looks durable
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Remove the two philips screws, and the two ribbons.
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The button panel and the LCD is now free.
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The camera has a 2.0", 85,000 dot LCD
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Under the LCD, we find a metal screen protecting the logic board.
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Carefully unlock it at the top and left side
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We're in
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Remove all the ribbon cables. There sure is a lot of them.
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Some of the ribbon cables have "Halogen free" singed on them. That's nice, but we are still not throwing the camera away, not just yet.
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These two screws hold the logic board.
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When removing the board, be careful about some remaining ribbon cables.
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The board is out!
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On one side we see the AD80080A chip from Analog devices responsible for capturing the analog signal from the CCD
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On the other side, we see the Sony "Real Imaging Processor" that converts raw photo data into nice and human-viewable .jpg files.
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The analog cable connecting the CCD to the logic board is screened with some pieces of metal to reduce noise.
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Under the logic board there is this piece of plastic, separating the lens and sensor from the rest of the camera.
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It comes right out, no screws or whatsoever.
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Detach the electronic viewfinder atop.
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The plastic locks hold the lens and screen of the electronic viewfinder together.
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The viewfinder screen is sooooo smallll!
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It has 200.000 dots, and about 30mm2 of area
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That is some insane pixel density, look what happens when the optics used to view this display are pressed against a typical laptop display - you can see the sub-pixels!
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The next two screws hold the lens and sensor module
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It's out, and it's huge.
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You can even make it bigger, apply 3 volts to the marked terminals to extend the lens.
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Remove these two screws to detach the sensor from the lens
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The sensor has a typical 1/2.5" size. That's not a big sensor.
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Here you have a 5 polish zloty coin for comparison.
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5 polish zloty's is about $1.80, in case you don't grasp the size yet :)
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The CCD is very shinny.
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6 megapixels from a 1 / 2.5" sensor is like expecting 70 megapixels from a 35mm film camera. It's still better then pumping 12 megapixels out of a pinhead sized sensor in mobile phones.
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The Carl Zeiss lens from the sony camera alongside the lens from a Zorki-6 soviet compact rangefinder from 1960.
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The back of the Zeiss has significantly more electronics, ribbon cables and servomechanisms than the Zorka lens
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Lets get back to the body of the camera
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Lift this plastic lock to remove the hight voltage chip powering the speed light.
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3 cables connect this board with the lamp and they are soldered.
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The capacitor has 320 micro farads of capacity and operates at 330 volts. That's 17.4 joules of potential electric energy, quite much for a speed light.
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To get to the microphone and top button panel, unscrew these three.
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Finally the button panel, with the broken shutter button.
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7 comments
Excellent teardown! Great job!
Do you have a Sony Cybershot DSC-H2 camera? Did your shutter button just POP OFF? Are you mad that your $400 Cybershot is now useless due to their design flaw?
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Awesome tear-down, saved me $150 bucks and my camera is back!. We love this camera and are so happy to have it working again.