Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H2 Teardown
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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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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H2 Teardown
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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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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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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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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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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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