As a digital camera engineer in some ways it’s sad to see many of these point and shoot cameras being discontinued. Cell phones have replaced so many consumer electronic devices.
Same here, ex Sony camera technician, there was quite a bit of technology in those things, i worked on their DSLR models and the later mirror box less models, needed quite a lot of test equipment to calibrate those things, i miss those old days.
I love your channel and your expertise in all kinds of electronics, but just one comment: The image stabilization method you describe is used for pure software image stabilization systems. They work by taking a huge batch of "underexposed" images, correlating them to each other until all pixels that are shifted by vibration are lined up to each other and summarizing all the images afterwards. But the still picture cameras of that time usually used a more "mechanic" approach by steering a lens group that is controlled by the shown voice coils with the data of an inertia measurement unit. That way the movable lens group shifts just in opposite direction to the "shaking" image and the optical image on the sensor stays stable. As a consequence, the image sensor can collect light for a longer time and does not need to be read that fast. - Just as comment so everyone can learn from each other 😊 -
One of my inlaw's children dropped a coolpix camera. The lens won't move out on startup. After watching this video I'll try to fix it. But, as "good" as I am at "fixing" things it will probably end up being "finished". Great video.
Zoran, not to be confused with Zorin Industries, haha! Nice teardown. I love these curvy traces on the flex PCB. I once took a peek inside my Canon EOS40D because I needed to replace the USB socket... The complexity was insane.
Awesome teardown 👍 There is an amazing amount of high tech stuff in that small camera. I really like the image sensor. The colours are so beautiful. It would make a nice piece of jewelry for someone like your daughter :-)
Lots of systems in the little camera.... I remember my buddy Scott...newly UofA EE...first job was assigned Kitt Peak...1981 Built CCD processor using discrete ECL and TTL...ran a fast flash ADC..clocked at 25 mHz.to read and store star data from universe by reading from an exposed light plate within telescope. Intel fastest processor maybe 2 MHZ tops... Then another image taken next night...find a wobble..or different image...by computer file subtraction ...boom you may have discovered a new planet. Planet Claire? It be nice to see how rows and columns of pixels are read and stored... TI Optoelectronic Data book...some vintage architecture shown reading CCD... I am glad mastermind IMSAI Guy....knows many camera and optical reading image secrets and can explain to us followers... Thanks... Like is each pixel a 0 to 512 light intensity ?...then every 3 pixel a RGB cell...so an image can be stored with its wavelength.....how bright and what color... You can read too Fred. Then maybe if getting stuck...have a specific question ... Good job...
I'm really surprised to see a Zoran processor in a proper brand name camera from Nikon! - Zoran was making chipsets for all the cheap no-name DVD-players in the early 2000s, not very good machines to be honest. ICX-xxx is a Sony part, but 801 is not a known part number. Weird!
And what is even weirder is that Nikon says that this camera contains their own EXPEED C2 processor. Well I don't see that, so in reality it's a lie when all it is is their IP running on the Zoran SOC.
