User:1sfoerster/enes100/fall2013/p0cameraHack-501

Problem Statement (Finish description)
Take apart a 35 mm SLR camera with all of it's mechanical and electrical components functioning and mount on a board that can be displayed vertically.

Explain the components that go into making the complicated mechanism function, and present the difficulties in reaching this goal

Conceive
Market/Customer Needs Illustrate optic concepts through a display of the internal mechanical and electrical components of a 35 mm camera.

Initial target goals Take apart and put back together 3 camera bodies documenting the physical mechanical and electrical subsystems.

System performance metrics The major buttons ... shutter, film advance, button taking the picture, timed release, light sensor, could have the subsystem input, output and a plan made for animating the function.

Project cost and schedule Donated camera bodies will not cost anything. Project deadline is 2 weeks

Alternatives Build a periscope out of the parts. had considered using them for the creation of artistic pieces, but were shot down for lack of creativity.

Design
Here is the user manual for the Minolta SRT201 Camera: http://www.cameramanuals.org/minolta_pdf/minolta_srt_200_201_202.pdf
 * Reverse Engineering:
 * Operations Manuals found

User manual for the Pentax Super Program: http://www.cameramanuals.org/pentax_pdf/pentax_super_program.pdf Service Manual for the Pentax Super Program: http://www.pentax-manuals.com/markroberts/superprog_man.pdf When the top switch is pulled back it winds the film on the inside. While the film is being pulled the screen on the inside is also being pulled. As the film winds it also pulls the springs on the inside next to the mirror. These springs pull up the mirror, and when the button is pushed they release and the mirror drops back down. Another spring on the bottom of the camera is pulled and when the button is pushed it also releases. The spring on the bottom pulls the latch on the bottom of the mirror. Here is the video of the Camera working after it has been taken apart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzPQ-ngxOY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJGSuHOmRbI Steps for removing the bottom plate: Underneath the Sprocket and Take-Up Reel is a coil which rotates both parts. That same part is connected to gears underneath which controls the shutter. When taking a picture the coil rotates, shifting the film one over that also triggers the shutter to open. Some film cameras have a manual film Advance lever and some are automatic.  File:Minolta front.JPG|Engineering project, disassembling a Minolta SRT201 camera. This is the front of the camera File:Minolta bottom.JPG|Bottom of a Minolta SRT201 camera File:Minolta bottom removed.JPG|Bottom removed of a Minolta SRT201 camera File:Bottom shot.JPG|thumb|Bottom shot  Steps for removing the casing all the way around the camera:  File:Minolta back.JPG|Back of a Minolta SRT201 camera File:Minolta open back.JPG|inside the back of a Minolta SRT201 camera File:Minolta back removed.JPG|Back of Minolta SRT201 camera removed File:Minolta plastic removed.JPG|Plastic wrapped around Minolta SRT201 camera removed File:Minolta front removed.JPG|Entire front of Minolta SRT201 camera removed 
 * Training video and tutorials found
 * Service Manuals found
 * Theory of Operation
 * The break down into assemblies and modules

The Layout of the View Finder:   Past the View Finder is a prism reflecting ones view straight up then back down through the ground glass and finally an angled mirror giving the view from the lens. The mirror quickly lifts up out of the way of the shutter then comes back down once light from the lens comes through burning a picture on to the film.
 * Film camera view finder layout

Next Steps
The project seems to be at a dead end with nobody working on it.

Potential next steps would be to use what deconstruction information we have gathered to make a presentable display for people to play with.