There''s video in YouTube of a guy putting together an iPhone from parts sourced there. That WAS an amazing insight!
But here's another one I wanted to share of problems and practicalities fixing electronics today. Some phones rendered unfixable because proprietary stuff, "security" and locking things down that has and will make your future repairs unnecessarily harder - if not impossible. Even with Shenzen around.
Why shouldn’t they? People fall in love with digital/electronic stuff all the time.We easily fall in Love with our mechanical cameras.
Nobody falls in Love, or at least shouldn’t, with a digital/electronic camera.
Why shouldn’t they? People fall in love with digital/electronic stuff all the time.
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.
But what if this wasn't the case? What if camera technicians never wanted to learn the skill-set that electronic repair takes?
This topic was already covered recently
SMD is not extraordinarily difficult to de-solder and solder a new one; but when the part is something like a resistor pack that needs to be replaced, that can be an issue when it has pins that go through multiple layers of a MULTILAYER circuit.SMD components, especially the ones that came about during the 80s and 90s, can be easily done at home with a hobbyist setup. No microscope required. It takes a little practice and a pair of tweezers but it’s very much doable. The components you’re describing that require very specialized tools really only came about during the late 2000s.
Your information is out of date. A 50,000 daily production of a camera would be 18,250,000 cameras a year. In 2021, the total number of all cameras sold was approximately 8,600,000, down from a high of 115,000,000 in 2011. Production of cameras has been plummeting for the past decade. Needless to say, smartphone sales are up significantly for the same period. Like McDonald hamburgers: billion and billions sold.Yes but nowhere near today’s numbers. Back then a camera could get a yearly run of 50,000 units. The next model wod get added on top while never saturating the market.
today, 50,000 units is a daily production
Your information is out of date. A 50,000 daily production of a camera would be 18,250,000 cameras a year. In 2021, the total number of all cameras sold was approximately 8,600,000, down from a high of 115,000,000 in 2011. Production of cameras has been plummeting for the past decade. Needless to say, smartphone sales are up significantly for the same period. Like McDonald hamburgers: billion and billions sold.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264337/cipa-companies-shipments-of-digital-cameras/
And in 2021, the total ship,eents of all SLR + Mirrorless is a bit over 5 Million units, per CIPA...about 2000 per day.Your information is out of date. A 50,000 daily production of a camera would be 18,250,000 cameras a year. In 2021, the total number of all cameras sold was approximately 8,600,000, down from a high of 115,000,000 in 2011. Production of cameras has been plummeting for the past decade. Needless to say, smartphone sales are up significantly for the same period. Like McDonald hamburgers: billion and billions sold.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264337/cipa-companies-shipments-of-digital-cameras/
Just because it’s working doesn’t necessarily mean it’s accurate. And mechanical shutters WILL drift. This article gives good insight into how sellers are marketing “working” cameras.at the consumer level, mechanical cameras dance all over electronic cameras. A mechanical camera that’s been sitting around for years is less likely to have major problems simply because they lack the intricate and fragile circuitry of an electronic camera. We’re just saying that at the professional level, the reliability of electronic cameras becomes less of an issue.
As you can see from my last post, the all-electronic 30-year-old N6006 seems to work flawlessly including exposure and shutter. Here are sample shots were just taken with it recently. using Tmax 400 35mm film.Just because it’s working doesn’t necessarily mean it’s accurate. And mechanical shutters WILL drift. This article gives good insight into how sellers are marketing “working” cameras.
https://kamerastore.com/blogs/posts/5-levels-of-shutter-testing-how-accurate-is-your-film-camera
Alac, alas, it looks like another photographic religious war has erupted - Manual v's Electronic. I have a foot in both camps. I even like plastic as I have owned a T90 since new in 1987 and it's still purring along. I also have plenty of cameras that only use power for metering and a few cameras sans a meter.
The earliest issue with electronics in cameras was 'range anxiety' regarding battery lifespan for meters. Now we are on failing electronics and really there haven't been too many howlers from manufacturers with dud electronics. Bad capacitors in some Minolta SLR's of the '80s and some OM bodies that had excessive power consumption and the early Spotmatic ES that had problems. Tell me what manufacturer had endemic electronic problems post 1980. There are always going to be sporadic examples of failed cameras of which we don't have a clue how they have been used and stored over the last 40 years. Most of them are getting pretty cheap to replace now.
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