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Remember when you could just pop the top off a camera and see the whole shutter mechanism?
I had a 1970s Canon FTb and a modern mirrorless on the bench today. The FTb's shutter was right there, all metal gears and springs you could touch. The new one? A sealed unit the size of a postage stamp. You need a heat gun, special drivers, and a prayer just to get to it. The shift from mechanical to these tiny electronic modules in the last 15 years is huge. What's your method for dealing with these integrated shutter assemblies without wrecking the board?
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the_cora2mo ago
Have you seen the stuff from that repair forum where they're 3D printing jigs to hold those ribbon cables in place while you work on them? I heard a guy talking about using a specific low-temp solder paste that melts just enough to free the module without cooking the board... it sounds so finicky though. With the old SLRs you could just blow on the mirror and call it a day, now you need a whole clean room setup just to swap a flex cable. Honestly makes me wonder how many of these new cameras will even be repairable in 20 years, it feels like planned obsolescence but packaged as progress.
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