nads wrote:
Unless I'm missing a bit, it looks like there aren't too many critical parts located in the right grip of the body. They should change the form factor of the next rebel to resemble the AE-1. I'd buy one just because it looks cool.
One major critical part inside the right grip - the battery!
Actually, it's quite amazing how much circuitry is stuffed into these bodies.
you could use this experience to learn how to do your own custom conversions such as removing the AA filter or IR conversion. IR conversion runs$350. Thanks for posting
Just a hint....If you get salt water inside your camera, and you want any hope of it being fixed, immediately remove the batteries, flush it with fresh water and then as soon as possible flush it with alcohol. Remove the back and allow it to dry.
Salt water will begin to corrode contacts within minutes. Fresh water will take a bit longer and alcohol does minimal corrosion (although it may affect other things).
nathanlake wrote:
Just a hint....If you get salt water inside your camera, and you want any hope of it being fixed, immediately remove the batteries, flush it with fresh water and then as soon as possible flush it with alcohol. Remove the back and allow it to dry.
Salt water will begin to corrode contacts within minutes. Fresh water will take a bit longer and alcohol does minimal corrosion (although it may affect other things).
Definitely worth a try if one is on the brink of loosing the equipment. Fresh water might work wonders. But don't forget to to detach the parts to be "washed" from the main body before trying it. And after the fresh water, use lots and lots of canned air.
Michael-M wrote:
kinda wierd that the chip in DPR's review says "Digic II", but the one in you pics doesn't eh?...........makes me wonder if we all got what we paid for.
Being semi-paranoid, that's exactly what I thought when I saw "Digic" and not "Digic II". I'm guessing the one on the dpreview site is a marketing shot/illustration, seeing as how that chip doesn't have any of the other identifying information that mine does.
with some black epoxy-looking stuff. I removed the two screws you can see in that image, as well as one in the rear, that appear to attach the sensor to the sensor frame, but the two stayed locked together.
The XT grip is so small that they could change the form factor of the battery and pull off that body style if they wanted to. Kind of like Leica did with that new/old one of theirs.
10DFT wrote:
One major critical part inside the right grip - the battery!
Actually, it's quite amazing how much circuitry is stuffed into these bodies.
thx for the answers Gary.................in my younger years i use to take apart almost anything i bought to see what made it tick................you just saved me a lot of time........
Michael-M wrote:
thx for the answers Gary.................in my younger years i use to take apart almost anything i bought to see what made it tick................you just saved me a lot of time........
Hi, I looked at the last pictures you posted and had the following comments (I hope someone will just correct me if I am wrong; but I think this series is too interesting to not try to gather some more knowledge ):
- I believe that sensor 1 is for metering. Moreover I remark a kind of 5x7 matrix on it, which I assume corresponds to the 35 zones metering. Opinions ?
- I would assume that sensor 2 is for metering too mainly because I do not see how sensor 1 would allow dealing with partial metering directly (or they just extrapolate it from the 35 zones ? this would not be very precise). In case you could do a macro of it, it could be quite interesting...
- The mirror in the bottom of the lens mount area probably hides the AF sensor. It would be very useful to know what this one looks like. The main mirror should let some light go through it and be reflected by the second smaller mirror to the AF sensor.
- What is the black frame in the last picture made in ?
FANTASTIC! Now I don't have to look inside mine! I am very confident my camera would never work again if I had to reassemble it! Thanks for saving me the $$$!
Another update. I'm down to the last few bits I can disassemble. The latest shots are of the dissected AF mirror/prism/sensor box, which lived at the bottom of the mirror chamber. Images can be seen here:
OveanView: It's been about two weeks on-and-off that I've been working on the disassembly. It's been a busy time, so I haven't been able to dedicate a ton of time to the project. The job is mostly done at this point, but I think I still have a couple of pieces to dig into (the top of the camera with the built-in flash comes to mind). I'll post again if I find something interesting!
