Mechanical cameras are better than electronic...

ChristopherCoy

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We all know the argument. Seems this guy proves it wrong. I know it's a digital camera, but it was interesting to watch him do this.

 

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Okay... that was fascinating. I only wish I knew how to make the video run at 4X. This guy is great.... I would have quit after extraction of SD card.

Thanks very much for passing that link along!
 

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Cool, obviously not salt water. Mud would prevent oxidization.......thats of coarse assuming it wasnt just someone who put a functioning camera into a bucket of mud for a week and then dried it out for awhile and then put it on a beach to make youtube vid.
Provided you cleaned. dried and lubed everything, there is no reason it wouldnt work again. Problem would be if there was any oxidization or shorts from turning the power on while still wet.
 

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I think I saw that camera on E-Bay last week. Mint...



Pretty amazing in any case. That gentleman knows how to disassemble, clean and reassemble a camera.
 

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Many of the comments (of those in English) accuse it of being a fake. The serial number is the same at both ends of the video. I say good job.
 

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My wife had a point and shoot film camera that stopped working (new battery didn't help). Since it wasn't functioning how worse could I make it so I decided to take it apart. I accidentally touched the capacitor and got quite a shock tossed the camera in the air. It bounced off the table and landed on a tile floor. I put it back together and for the heck of it tried to see if it would work. It did so I put a roll of film in and the negatives were okay. If I could only remember how high I tossed it. That might come in handy one day.
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I once sent an inoperable Sony camera to their repair center in Laredo, with what later turned out to be a known flaw for that model, and they returned it saying it could not be fixed because it “had water damage”. It had never been exposed to a drop of water in its short pampered life. Wish they could have seen this.
 

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MartinCrabtree said:
Many of the comments (of those in English) accuse it of being a fake. The serial number is the same at both ends of the video. I say good job.
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It likely is, a lot of the restoration channels where they just find something in mud and then brush it off are (same with the animal "rescue" channels).
It's just accomplished by being the one to put mud on the camera and then "find" it. Some of the channels will show the restored thing at the end and actually have recorded that before covering it in mud and leaving it by a road to "find"
Same with the animal "rescues", it's mostly algorithm chasing and trying to do the same thing that other big restoration/repair channels did (hand tool rescue for one, who doesn't do any fakery) and mechanical channels that show the process as a relaxing thing (clickspring).

For anyone who has no idea what I mean by the animal "rescue" channels, please avoid them for your own sake. There are some places that do animal rescue as actual non-profits, but that is a very different thing.
 

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so this is in the "Exposure Discussion" forum because the camera was suffering from exposure to the elements? I love it.
 
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abruzzi said:
so this is in the "Exposure Discussion" forum because the camera was suffering from exposure to the elements? I love it.
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mmmm.... I think I put it here because it's the only "general discussion" forum we have other than the lounge.
 

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MartinCrabtree said:
Many of the comments (of those in English) accuse it of being a fake. The serial number is the same at both ends of the video. I say good job.
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Yes, good job with changing that serial sticker.

You take some really old digital camera in that condition, tear it apart and pretend cleaning it perfectly AND assembling it.. Yeah, right.
 

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Take used camera, film it working perfectly, disassemble, reassemble, throw it in mud, leave for a few days, retrieve, disassemble, clean. Whoever threw it away kindly removed the batteries, which made the restoration far more likely to succeed.

I mean, in general, water doesn't instantly destroy electronics. Weak acid, quickly neutralized, probably won't destroy them either. But I'm suspicious of the lack of scratches on the lens barrel, the display, and I've never seen shiny plastic be restored to it's original shiny state after being exposed to the elements. I'm not entirely sure what you can accomplish with a voltmeter on an IC when it's unpowered-- you're certainly not going to get any logic traces out of that.

What impresses me is that he was able to put all the screws back in the right place, and attach all the parts correctly. That's a helluva 3D jigsaw puzzle.

But I'm somewhat skeptical in general.
 

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Last i checked that camera is considered to be fully water proofed when fully retracted as that was....

now, if it had been buried in the cats litter box for a week, then i MIGHT have been interested
 
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