Now before we begin let me say one thing. I do not recomend doing this. For one thing it gave me a shock. It hurt. Funny though it made my finger feel as though it was being burnt but when I let go the feeling went no pain at all no burn of any kind.

Question: But how can this thing give you an electric shock if there's no power supply?
Answer: Quite simple really. At least I think I have the answer. I tell in a minute.

It's really interesting opening these thigns up. I hvae no idea what's what but still it is fun.

The story of the camera is that the lens jammed. It went a little funny jamming once or twice but still worked. Then suddenly the lens jammed and would not go back into the camera. The cmaera would turn itself off automaticly when the lens didn't respond. Besides I got a new camera.

The must have been some kind of greasy stuff in there. Look you can see my finger print on the screen.






Now without the front you can see how I could get that shock. It's not marked but you can see it to the left of the lens. A long grey thing. Took me a while to figure out what that long battery thing was and when I did I hit myself for my stupidity. You see I'm used to seeing small capacitors like the ones they teach you about in schools. I got the shock when I tried to remvoe something after I relised that I had really destroyed the camera. It was at the back hidden by the circuitboard.

Also you can see that I used no work bench, instead used my leg and a table. Still I got the job done.

I think I'll leave it there for now. I'll bring more in the next few days.

A wonder though the old camera.

Rob once owned this camera. Kodak easyshare c340. He took many pictures with it and was pleased with it (mainly). It was simple and easy to use and gave great pictures that looked so clear that they looked clearer than the real thing. Only four problems could Rob find with it:

1. Autofocus: tends to focus on wrong thing. Caused a lot of grief when making the lego film.
   
2. Screen would make it appear as if the picture would show up fine then you'd find it was too dark or something. All cameras do this though (I think).
3. It took wierd batteries that were hard to find: crv3 type. Cost over ten quid but made the camera work very well and for a long time.
4. It broke.

With the year long warrenty out of date (supprise supprise) it suddenly stopped working. That is to say that the lense would stay out and not go back in when the camera turned off then it would not go on because of that.

After getting a new camera Rob thought, let's take a look inside. It's quite amazing inside. We think we found the problem. Ha ha we even attempted to put it back together after Rob had a sudden sense of guilt. It's a camera Rob, it's not alive. Oh even after finding a spring and didn't know where it went and seeing all the screws we tried anyway. It now lies on Rob's table broken forever. Ha ha we snapped something. We didn't even get the chance to ponder over what went where.

Come back as we put up a small tour of what we did with pictures. Oh and people from Kodak are reading (very very very unlikely) please don't sue just kindly aksed us to remove this post and tell us to never make anymore. Hey I don't want to be in trouble with the law.