Post by ratty on May 18, 2017 16:10:00 GMT -5
Hey guys, I don't really know where else to put this, this looks like the most appropriate section.
I recently bought an old Canon camera at a flea market. It has pretty decent optics, and manual zoom and focus options, which I was looking for. (The idea was to use it to aim at my screen on a dot pattern and have that go to a TV near my projector to make magnetics setup of the tubes easier.)
Anyways, I bought the thing (really cheap so no big loss if it's beyond saving), tried it out, and it was working just fine. A few months later I actually wanted to use it, and hooked it up. The first thing off was the viewfinder just displaying a vertical bar, though the AV out was still working. By the time I set up the test patterns on my screen, the image from the camera lost sync, and I smelled the piss-stench of electrolyte in the room. Opening the thing up, pretty much all the SMD lytics (and there's a ton of them) were bleeding...
Now replacing ~200 SMD caps on tiny circuit boards is not my idea of a good time, plus they're packed really tight, and some of the leads are already corroded, so limited chance of success. Plus it's a HI8 cam, so it's not really worth the price of so many caps. I know virtually nothing about how cameras are built up, so if the question is dumb, just tell me to drop it
I have the entire CCD/Lens assembly removed as a whole. Can I get video out of that somehow without having to rebuild the whole camera? If no, I'll just toss it and keep my eyes open for something else that has a macro-ready lens and manual focus.
Thanks!
I recently bought an old Canon camera at a flea market. It has pretty decent optics, and manual zoom and focus options, which I was looking for. (The idea was to use it to aim at my screen on a dot pattern and have that go to a TV near my projector to make magnetics setup of the tubes easier.)
Anyways, I bought the thing (really cheap so no big loss if it's beyond saving), tried it out, and it was working just fine. A few months later I actually wanted to use it, and hooked it up. The first thing off was the viewfinder just displaying a vertical bar, though the AV out was still working. By the time I set up the test patterns on my screen, the image from the camera lost sync, and I smelled the piss-stench of electrolyte in the room. Opening the thing up, pretty much all the SMD lytics (and there's a ton of them) were bleeding...
Now replacing ~200 SMD caps on tiny circuit boards is not my idea of a good time, plus they're packed really tight, and some of the leads are already corroded, so limited chance of success. Plus it's a HI8 cam, so it's not really worth the price of so many caps. I know virtually nothing about how cameras are built up, so if the question is dumb, just tell me to drop it
I have the entire CCD/Lens assembly removed as a whole. Can I get video out of that somehow without having to rebuild the whole camera? If no, I'll just toss it and keep my eyes open for something else that has a macro-ready lens and manual focus.
Thanks!
