One dollar camera takes a picture for the first time.

Picked up a Camera at a garage sale last weekend, it was in a shoebox full of junk. The price tag on the box of crap was a single dollar bill.

The good news was the camera looked new and the decal indicated 14Megapixle. The bad news was the touch screen didn’t work…

The camera undergoes emergency surgery … A quick look under the Science scope indicate the patient has detached copper traces on the flexible circuit board.

Close up shot of the area of concern. This damage is unrepairable… que ominous music.

A replacement touch screen was flown in from Chicago. $26.95 including shipping.

New screen surgically re-attached to camera.

Surgery completed and it appears the patient will make a full recovery.

Picture of the camera taking a picture…

An actual picture from the camera.

People don't repair things anymore didn't you get the memo?

Can we get a picture of the picture that the camera in the picture took?

$27.95 camera takes picture for the first time don't you mean?

An to nocones, to the average person, many here included, that would have been a $75 as they would have had to pay to have it done, hence they buy a new camera instead. I've changes touch screens and batteries on iPhones before, but I think next time I'll buy a new one.

Wow nice.

Adrian_Thompson wrote: $27.95 camera takes picture for the first time don't you mean? An to nocones, to the average person, many here included, that would have been a $75 as they would have had to pay to have it done, hence they buy a new camera instead. I've changes touch screens and batteries on iPhones before, but I think next time I'll buy a new one.

Time is money, afterall.

A Motorola executive told me that the design life of a cell phone is 18 months. Manufacturers subscribe to the Colin Chapman theory but replace lightness with cheapness.

N Sperlo wrote: Can we get a picture of the picture that the camera in the picture took?

How about a picture of a picture of the camera taking a picture...

In reply to fujioko:

Be careful. If you keep this up your camera may turn inside out. Good find and good repair.

T.J. wrote: In reply to fujioko: Be careful. If you keep this up your camera may turn inside out. Good find and good repair.

That sounds like a challenge...

A picture of a picture of a picture of the camera taking a picture.... or something like that.

Speaking about challenges..

Adrian_Thompson wrote: $27.95 camera takes picture for the first time don't you mean?

According to challenge rules, you are correct. My only argument is a $50.00 SAAB is always going to be a $50.00 SAAB.

Anyway,

... it's a slow day at the office.

T.J. wrote: In reply to fujioko: Be careful. If you keep this up your camera may turn inside out. Good find and good repair.

It could open up a black hole like the super Heydrone Collider (SP?) and that would be the end of us all. The end of time brought on by a thread abut camera repair.

Adrian_Thompson wrote: $27.95 camera takes picture for the first time don't you mean? An to nocones, to the average person, many here included, that would have been a $75 as they would have had to pay to have it done, hence they buy a new camera instead. I've changes touch screens and batteries on iPhones before, but I think next time I'll buy a new one.

I just had the screen replaced on my Nexus 5... while the job was good for $150 (nexus 5 screens are twice the price of a iphone), lots of electronic devices nowadays (sort of like cars) aren't really meant to/aren't user friendly when coming apart and being put back together.

No matter what I do, I can't get the back case "cover" on the nexus 5 to be all nice/tight/flush like it was from the factory.

It is nice to hear success stories like these, and the accomplishment is always fun

nocones wrote: People don't repair things anymore didn't you get the memo?

To be fair, working (effectively anyhow) on modern handheld electronics requires a certain finesse that many don't have, and some can't learn. The one time I tried to work on an iPod (screen replacement) I never got the thing running, it ended up going to a local shop that fixed whatever my berkeley up was. I can rebuild the smallest of carburetors in my sleep, I spent an entire day with a handful of sharpening stones and some layout fluid giving my M91/30 a glass smooth, surprise break, trigger (zero engagement or geometry alterations, just fitting and smoothing), but playing with tiny ribbon cables in place my fingers don't fit isn't for me.

Type Q wrote:

T.J. wrote: In reply to fujioko: Be careful. If you keep this up your camera may turn inside out. Good find and good repair.

It could open up a black hole like the super Heydrone Collider (SP?) and that would be the end of us all. The end of time brought on by a thread abut camera repair.

Oh noes! I think a pixilated vortex has opened and the internet is about to implode. Sorry.

The camera was very easy to take apart and put back together. Something like a Nexus 5 or even i-phones are a lot harder to repair. Using large stage science scope helps see all the little bits and minimizes damage. I think all my ipods have been apart at least a few times already.

It feels good to know I'm not the only one who enjoys tearing small electronics apart and make them do things they didn't before. Like work...

I would have bought it for the greeblie potential and never even tried to fix it. Clearly my brain has been taken over by costuming...

Nice fix!

I fixed my wife's Nook for about $4 after she flooded it with tea. I was proud of myself but had my time been worth anything it would have been cheaper to by a new one.

My only fix was replacing the cable on a pair of senheisers. I could write many chapters on my DNF electronics repairs.