Waytago! Strong work, if fiddly. THanks for the report.
Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
December 14, 2019 at 8:42 AM
In my travels and travails I somehow managed to end up with
a Canon 10D camera that I purchased for $1. Non-functional,
of course. For an auxiliary Christmas present for my son, I decided
to see if I could fix it. He has a nice phone camera, but those cameras
are decidedly limited on the long end, and the 10D can take all the
glass our family already has.
Canon's cameras seem to be plagued with blown fuses, which are NOT
easy to replace. An older 6MP camera is not worth the price of repair,
but it's built very nicely as befits its original $2000 price tag.
This camera
has a reputation for taking nice pictures, within the limits of its
resolution
of course. It's basically the nice version of the Rebel I have for a
backup.
Anyway, I decided that risking $1 in ham-handed home surgery was not
a bad thing to do. Out came the screwdriver and the smoldering iron,
and in I went.
A couple of hours later the kitchen table was covered with screws and bits
of disassembled camera. The fuse is on the DC/DC board, which is deep
under the shutter button. You have to desolder some flex circuits in order
to remove it, once you can reach it.
With it out, and its RFI shields unsoldered and removed, I could see that
F101 was open-circuit, as expected. I bridged it with solder. ($1,
remember?)
Reversing the process to assemble was harder, and slower, duh. I'm not
sure
all the screws went back in their exact places, but nothing seemed too
out of
whack. I might have been one short, I can't remember exactly. ($1!)
Anyway, with it all together I put on the battery grip (the actual
first thrift-shop
purchase, and what sucked me into this whole mess in the first place) and
installed a CF card and a battery from my Rebel, and.... it worked!
Of course, now it needs a basic lens to live on it, and batteries and
a charger,
and... I think I'll be in it about $100 by the time I'm done. Single
biggest
expenditure is the lens, but it also will work on any of the other
cameras.
This rig is aimed at taking the telephoto shots that a camera phone simply
cannot do.
-- Jim
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