Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my last post I was referring exclusively to electronic shutters, not entire camera control systems. According to what I've heard, Independent of the type application, most installed ICs fail because of faulty power regulation or static I guess mobile phones must be a very rough neighborhood for an IC. Since I'm not really into new cameras too much I can only wonder what types of chips live inside them. I remember a Nikon FE I once worked on had a small surface mount dip-like IC with a Nikon label on it. I don't remember if it was a std package Leitz used a Ferranti chip also surface mount on the R4. I tried xrefing it some time back but couldn't find any matches. I assume it's a linear device of some sort or at most a collection of gates. This is a fascinating area for me. Does anyone have more info on the type of chips used in Cameras? Proprietary or standard? Any bonafide microprocessors or just linears and gates? See Ya Javier FIGLIO4CAP@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/8/00 6:41:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, > summarex@yahoo.com writes: > > << While it makes sense at first, defending the mechanical shutter as more > reliable in the long term than > the electronic one is like like claiming that an old adding machine is more > reliable than a pocket calculator. It isn't. >> > > I think the real issue is the long-term availability of the integrated > circuits, not that of individual transistors or diodes. These circuits do > fail, although not very often. > Bob Figlio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com