Sony DSC-H2 Teardown

Add Note Introduction

Author: baq

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.

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Teardown Warning

Teardown

Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.

User-Contributed Guide

User-Contributed Guide

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Add Note Step 1 — Teardown

  • This is the Sony DSC-H2 we are going to tear down.

  • It's a 6.0mpix, 12x optical zoom compact digital camera.

  • It served well to the point at which the shutter button fell off.

  • To tear it apart, we need a #0 Philips screwdriver only, thats very nice of you, Sony!

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Add Note Step 2

  • Almost all cameras have a high voltage circuit and capacitor to power the flash.

    • Before you disassemble any camera, remove the batteries and wait a full day to make sure the capacitor is discharged

    • 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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Add Note Step 3

  • For safety reasons, find a screwdriver that has a plastic, wooden or other non-conducting handle

  • 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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Add Note Step 4

  • Now, let's start the ceremony!

  • Remove the two screws at the bottom.

  • The two on the right side.

  • Ant the one on the left side

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Add Note Step 5

  • There is one more screw at the right side of the flash lamp

  • These 5 screws are identical, and unique to the outer shell of the camera.

  • We may now remove the back shell, revealing the LCD and rear control panel

  • The body is thick and looks durable

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Add Note Step 6

  • Remove the two philips screws, and the two ribbons.

  • The button panel and the LCD is now free.

  • The camera has a 2.0", 85,000 dot LCD

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Add Note Step 7

  • Under the LCD, we find a metal screen protecting the logic board.

  • Carefully unlock it at the top and left side

  • We're in

  • Remove all the ribbon cables. There sure is a lot of them.

  • 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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Add Note Step 8

  • These two screws hold the logic board.

  • When removing the board, be careful about some remaining ribbon cables.

  • The board is out!

  • On one side we see the AD80080A chip from Analog devices responsible for capturing the analog signal from the CCD

  • On the other side, we see the Sony "Real Imaging Processor" that converts raw photo data into nice and human-viewable .jpg files.

  • The analog cable connecting the CCD to the logic board is screened with some pieces of metal to reduce noise.

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