Cameras are neat to teardown, especially these pocket cameras it is amazing all the parts and the complication. This is a teardown into every last possible piece (almost).
Sony opted for a rechargeable date & settings battery! Way cooler solution than my old Canon - CR1220 slot on the outside. That's that think of everything in advance Japanese overengineering. 👍 Thanks for the incredible insights - awesome video! 👌👏
Can i ask a question? I have a dsc h70 that the screen works and a dsc hx9v that doesnt work the screen. Can i replace the screens? Like put the dsc h70 onto hx9v body. Somebody please help me
hello, thank you for the teardown. i have that kind of digicam now there's a problem, it has a dark spot on the lense when i zoom in 9x and at full 10x. idk what to do cause i try to wipe it using a microfiber cloth but didn't change. i'm wondering if there's a dust spot inside the lens. watching your video helps me see what's inside and... i can't clean it internally @_@
Thank you for the interesting educational video on Sony compact camera tear-down. When you watch a video in which just the LCD panel is replaced or some other minor repair is done, you don't get any idea of the incredibly complex design and engineering of the camera. To your credit, you broke only two parts at 9:19 and 14:21 even though you had absolutely no plan of reassembling the camera! The tiny button cell on the PCB that holds the SD card socket is there to retain the settings like date, time, etc. When this battery voltage goes too low which happens if the camera is close to 10 years old, every time you turn on the camera, it will ask for date, time and other details. Replacing this battery will solve that problem though the job is not that easy. Unfortunately, Sony does not provide any assistance to DIY enthusiasts who have the tools, patience and the expertise to accomplish the task.
For a person that is not experienced in working on it, I would wager putting it back together would probably be 4-5 times more difficult than taking it apart. Edit: He will not be putting this back together. This was a destructive disassembly.
@@politicalpotato8383 Good job for someone with no experience on this camera to try to disassemble it, yes. But not a good job if there was any intent to fix it.
Well you did a great job of taking it apart but I guess you were not able to put it back together. By the way I like cats a lot they're really cool animals. Interesting video for me because I have a similar model and it received some water damage I was thinking to try to take it apart and clean the corrosion parts myself but it seems like it's really complicated and I doubt I'll be able to put it back together so I think I'm going to try to take it to a local camera repair shop or at least contact them first and see if it's even something they would mess with trying to fix I tried contacting Samsung locally but they don't even offer digital camera repair which is kind of disappointing they only seem to want to repair cell phones but I guess it's easier for them and well anyway it is what it is thanks again for the video
Thanks for the video! I have to disagree a bit, having a very similar camera from the same Sony model line. It takes better pics than any modern phone (besides that... whatever it was model, that literally had a camera/zoom lens built in so it was huge, effectively a camera with a phone built in rather than a phone with a camera built in), does 1080p 60FPS AVCHD/H.264, with an optically stabilized lens, and the battery life is enough for over 300 pics, using the same battery part # that one uses. Heck, mine doesn't only do facial detection, it can discriminate between kids and adults and focus on whichever you want. It has a further throwing flash, and even without, can do a rapid series of pics to average out noise for much better low light images. The stereo mics have good channel separation too, audio sounds very 3D. Granted, mine is "slightly" newer than the one you're tearing down (only 9-1/2 years old) as yours can only do 720p, but frankly, 720p is still sufficient for many uses and does save on memory requirements. I still use mine regularly and my only issue is the USB connector long ago broke loose of the PCB so have to pull the battery for charging and the memory card to get pics or video off, but when you have hundreds of pics or GB's of video, it's probably faster to do that anyway, and the battery charges faster in a dedicated charger. The less useful pocket cameras were those made closer to 20 years ago, I recall one I had that ran off 2 x AA batteries and only got about 15 shots before draining them, making me wish I'd gotten a Canon instead which was much larger due to using 4x AA but could take about 3X as many pics due to that.
