Comments on: Replacing a point and shoot lens

By: MarkyMark

MarkyMark — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:46:46 +0000

If there is another copy of the DSC-W55 guide, please could someone post a link?

My sony caught an ocean wave in the face when switched on, and now has lines all over the pictures. It takes movie fine though – a bit weird.

On the other hand, I could blunder my way through and create some sort of guide if it would help anyone else.

By: Ruth Loans

Ruth Loans — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:12:08 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:02:47 +0000

Re post by kyle007

is your take apart guide and reassemble guide for DSC-w55 available on the net? I’ve got a w55 with cracked LCD, bought a new LCD but have problems with replacing it.

Could you drop me an email by any chance on p.wolowski@gmail.com?

Would be grateful for any help.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:52:01 +0000

any pointers to that security feature on the sony firmware?
i’m thinking about swapping a good sony lens for a better carl zeiss one. as to improve picture quality without upgrading :)

By: questiondude

questiondude — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:00:35 +0000

umm having same prob with dsc-w120 need to replace lcd but dont know wat to do after taking off casing, any help here would be nice, and this is alot harder then my sony psp repairs

By: kyle007

kyle007 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:28:13 +0000

I was buying a sonys DSC-w55,through DSC-w120 on e-bay with cracked LCD’s and or Lends assemblies, and putting them back together, then gave them away as gifts and sold them as refurbished on e-bay, I road an old crappy wooden roller coaster and my camera was in my pocket the rickety ride cracked the LCD on my camera I was crushed… I found that other people had the same problem and new LCD’s were almost the price of a new point and shoot… so I started buying them broken AS IS for parts I bought 12 of them and repaired 6 er 8 of them I kept one gave a few away as gifts and sold the rest including the completely broken parts. There were many assemblies in side the camera there was a flash assembly, a lends, lcd and main mother board all parts were inter change able I still have a DSC-w120 I rebuilt and keep it on me daily…
I even made a take apart guide and reassemble guide for the DSC –w55, W70, and the W80

By: firebat45

firebat45 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:24:10 +0000

That should be “undo 1-4 screws”…

By: firebat45

firebat45 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:22:58 +0000

dot, the screen is probably the easiest internal component to replace. It’s always on the outside, usually all you have to do is take off the casing, and under 1-4 scres on the screen, unplug it, and you’re done. A screen swap usually takes me less than 30 minutes, a lens swap like the article takes over 2 hours.

By: epicelite

epicelite — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:17:30 +0000

@fyrebug

I think that is so the capacitor doesn’t hurt anyone and they get sued.

By: CaesarPalace

CaesarPalace — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:29:53 +0000

wow, that looks risky

By: Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:57:43 +0000

The LCD in my Canon Powershot S50 has recently died (everything else works and I can plug in a TV as a viewfinder, but the LCD just shows solid grey). I was also going to mention (like firebat45) that when the LCD ribbon cable is not plugged in properly the LCD is solid white, though, so that may be the problem here.

Replacing the LCD should be a much easier job than the lens assembly; the only difficulty is finding all the screws that hold the thing together in the first place!

By: Dot

Dot — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:55:36 +0000

Nice. Is there something on replacing the lcd screen on the back of one of these point and shoots? Because today I found my lcd had cracked.. :(

By: fuzzmanmatt

fuzzmanmatt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:15:44 +0000

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By: fyrebug

fyrebug — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:54:08 +0000

I had to do this for a sony camera.

UNFORTUNETLY the second you open up many sony cams to replace the lens it trips a security feature in the firmware that disables the flash (not the memory, the camera flash)
there’s apparently a VERY round about way to get it going again, but in the end sometimes it’s not worth the time and part cost for a $100 camera.

By: firebat45

firebat45 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:09:24 +0000

I’ve done this several times on a few different Canon cameras. A few notes that might be helpful:

If the screen shows full white like his, try reconnecting the screen ribbon cable.

If the screen shows black, the camera zooms, but doesnt take pictures, try reconnecting the image sensor ribbon cable.

If it grinds, you can try disassembling the actual lens and rebuilding that, I’ve had success with that sometimes.

And most importantly, STAY CLEAR OF THE CAP! I’ve accidentally set it off on 2 rebuilds. The first just died, the camera wouldnt work at all. The second one actually shocked me, causing me to tear the ribbon cable I was holding. Make sure you don’t touch the terminals with your skin or a screwdriver.

That said, replacing misc parts inside isnt all that hard. Most Canons are more or less the same idea inside, once you’ve taken one apart they’re all pretty similar.