For the not so faint hearted:Taking Apart a Fuji X100

[jab2]

Let me give you all a piece of wisdom that I recently learned the hard way. If you go on a fishing trip called 'Hit em' Hard' and the captain tells you that you should take your bag off and put it in the 'dry container', what he really means by 'dry container' is a place that will fill up with seawater after he accidently clogs the drainage pipe, soaking you and your friends cameras, bags, wallets and cellphones for over an hour in salty seawater.

But if you think the X100 is beautiful on the outside, it is breathtaking on the inside.

The camera is a giant puzzle of miniscule parts. There were hundreds of hidden, miniature screws, rods, tape and dabs of glue holding it together. It was difficult to take apart to the point where it turned into a game. I'd stare at the thing for 10 minutes until I found that one screw hidden behind something that held everything together. It would be absolutely impossible for me to put this thing back together.

http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com...-the-fuji-x100

[SteveG]

Rad! I would so tear my camera apart if it got toasted this badly. I tried it a little bit (just the shutterspeed knob!) on my old Minolta SRT101 - lots of scary-tiny clockwork and springs. Gave up and put it back as best I could.

I can share a similar story: My friend dropped a Nikon Coolpix 995 once. It would turn on but the lens would shuffle back and forth a bit and then the whole camera would crash. bust. Luckily someone else in the same office had a working version of the same camera so he took BOTH cameras apart, part for part, until he found the mismatch between the two. Fixed the busted one and then put them both back together again, functional. He earned serious respect from me that day.

[camerasaurusrex]

I'm thinking, if that ever happened to me I would immediately remove the battery, and dunk the whole camera in distilled water, and keep changing the water untill all the salt is gone. I would then immerse it in isopropanol, and then dry.

Then I would say a few prayers, insert the battery and see what happens....

[Deon RacePics]

Well I can imagine that must have been an interesting strip .... ( but I can just hear my mother over my shoulder )

[camerasaurusrex]

Funny enough I have rescued several cell-phones in this way... they have camera's right

[Digital Guy]

That's dedication for you. If you love your camera then you'll go where no man's gone before.

One of hikes I went on is the "Standlooper" in East London. Although this 65KM hike is 90% walking on the beach there are some river crossings you need to traverse. To get accross you need to put your "valuables" in a bag then tie a knot, a good knot then float your bag accross the river.

Thanks for the find and for posting

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

hectic!

[Richard Sloman]

My first digital Ixus eventually got bashed around by children etc later on in its life to the point where the lens stopped working, so I decided to take it apart and try to fix it. So I set out, screwdriver in hand, and in what seemed an inordinate length of time, I finally managed to get the thing apart. Even that little thing was something of beauty inside, especially the lens mechanism, which, with a lot of fiddling I managed to get to work once again.

Put everything back together without the usual spare parts leaving me wondering what I missed, and that camera continued working for a few years thereafter.

The most amazing thing about the insides of my Canon Ixus, was that it was a Sony...