The general wisdom for decades is, that electronically control cameras fail easily, and that with no spare parts anymore, that there will be no way to fix them. Eventually in the coming decades there shall be a mountain of 1980s-2000s cameras that all failed, and the robust mechanical cameras of the 40s-70s will live on forever.
I Recently posted in the thread discussing the very same thing. In my experience electronic cameras I have a bad rep where is my chemical cameras need far more maintenance and repair them what their reputation suggests.
But what if this wasn't the case? What if camera technicians never wanted to learn the skill-set that electronic repair takes?
If there is corrosion on the board, a capacitor has failed, a trace has been broken, all of these things will lead to a failure of the entire camera. But diagnosing these things, and fixing them, is just another skill. If the main chip that controls the cameras setting and contains its code broke, then yes, the camera would be likely unfix-able without donor parts. But any other small basic parts (usually these things are what fails) can easily and readily be fixed, even to this day.
What do you think about this thought experiment? Do you think electronic cameras are scapegoated for problems even mechanical cameras suffered from? Or do you believe that because electronic cameras all have some level of irreplaceable chips, they will inherently never be as reliable as a mechanical system.
Surface mounted parts would need to go to a board factory for the repair, it takes specialized skill working under a microscope to replace some of these.
My training is in electrical repair.We've been trained for decades that electronic devices are to be discarded when broken
Their stuff is designed to last one day longer than the warranty period.Just about every camera that has been mentioned has lasted far beyond the manufacturer's original design brief because all consumer products are envisaged by the manufacturer's design and materials engineers to have a particular future length of service life otherwise if they lasted forever, they would never sell any more cameras.
Before you go too far into another thought experiment on this topic, research the definitions of three important, related but different, words:
- reliability
- maintainability
- availability
- dependability
Which one is being referenced in this so-called conventional wisdom?
I’ve heard this nonsense since the 1980’s. BTW.
If your point and shoot stops working Paul, you put it in the bin, and buy another.So your point and shoot stops working, who do you send it to? I can get a Spotmatic serviced but not LX.
If your point and shoot stops working Paul, you put it in the bin, and buy another.
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