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Willcorliss
Tinkerer
Username: Willcorliss
Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2013
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 - 06:02 pm: | 
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Hello. I LCD on my camera suddenly went dark and purple. After watching this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coM_V7kgty8
I became convinced the ccd sensor is bad. My question regards the fluid the narrator applies to the new sensor and back-plate. Unfortunately I don't speak German, the language of the film (I think) so I wonder if someone can tell me whether it is an adhesive and, if so, whether it is a special type or even and standard type - that is, what kind it is. The segment that shows the application of the adhesive appears at the 3:06 mark.
Thanks!
Will |
Michael_linn
Tinkerer
Username: Michael_linn
Post Number: 97
Registered: 04-2011
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 - 11:05 pm: |
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Someday, off into the future, when your camera becomes a classic camera, we may have something here about it on the Classic Camera Repair Forum.
We are still debating lubricants from the 1950's and 60's.
Until then, you will have to do as we do here, and throw it away and buy another. |
Willcorliss
Tinkerer
Username: Willcorliss
Post Number: 2
Registered: 08-2013
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 07:56 am: |
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Ok. I'll just be leaving now. Sorry to have bothered you. |
Br1078lum
Tinkerer
Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 629
Registered: 11-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 06:31 pm: |
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Will, sorry you feel that way. Though we deal in older film cameras, once in a while someone will be able to help someone like yourself through their own experience.
My experience with the TZ-3 is if it's broke, don't bother trying to repair it. It's not that great of a camera in the first place (darned purple fringing of highlights always ticked me off), though when it came out it was pretty good, with that 10X zoom. But I quickly tired of it's limitations, and finally replaced mine this year.
Your best bet, if you are really enamored with the camera, is to get another one. Check it out well though, as there could be old-age faults showing up. But if you are just the tinkering type, I don't think anyone here would have knowledge of that adhesive, or what could even be wrong with your camera.
Good luck, and visit again.
PF |
Michael_linn
Tinkerer
Username: Michael_linn
Post Number: 98
Registered: 04-2011
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 09:51 pm: |
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You didn't bother me. Just do a Google search using the model number of your camera along with the word "repair". Steering you somewhere else is the best I can do for you.
The Admin has posted this at the top of the forum page:
"ESPECIALLY DO NOT POST questions about digital cameras."
It's up to posters to read that and save themselves the trouble and mortification of finding out that they might be on the wrong forum.
It's not that people here don't want to help; the fact is, most of us are unable to provide specific help on repairs that we know nothing about. |
Neuberger
Tinkerer
Username: Neuberger
Post Number: 90
Registered: 01-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 03:18 am: |
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The video you mention, like many others from the same source, is by no means a tutorial for DIYers. Under several names the makers of those ouevres offer spares, tools and, of course, professional help. In other words, the vid is pure advertisement.
Believing working on digicams was as easy as the charming voice of the speaker and the quick cuts of the video seem to suggest I once was misled and tried repairing a Fuji Finepix F 480, but with no success at all, although I had bought specific tools and a fleabay donor camera.
So do as you are told, keep your camera for tomorrow's tinkerers and/or buy a new one. Usually the people here are helpful, so there is no reason of pretending to feel offended. |
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