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                                   Repairs

I worked some more on the digital camera [1] I have. The problem is one of
focus. Or rather, the lack thereof.

The camera is a fixed-focus camera and you have to take the unit practically
apart to refocus it. The lens assembly consists of two cylinders, one that
slides inside another, with a screw/spring assembly on one side to adjust the
position of the inner cylinder, which houses the lens, against the outer
cylinder, which attaches to the mount on which the CCD rests.

When last I left it, I thought that since the screw/spring assembly was on
one side, when tightened, one side was pulled in closer than the other side,
thus leading to pictures that were half focused. My thought was to remove the
screw/spring assembly, file down the end of the outter cylinder, allowing the
inner one to adjust closer, and use some glue to hold it in place.

No avail.

During the machinations, I removed the blue filter that sits above the CCD.
Interesting results. Two exceedingly blurry pictures that I find rather
amusing:

Rhspdody in Red [2] [3] Rhapsody in Peace [4] [5]

Okay, so I'm not getting anywhere. I dig up the screw/spring assembly (I took
the thing off back last November). The glue thing wasn't working (and I
didn't have the right glue anyway, so it wasn't holding very well) so I
reattached the screw/spring assembly minus one small wire piece that seemed
to work against the spring (go figure).

So, with CCD filter, and newly reassembled cylinder assembly back in place, a
few tweaks and finally success! [6] (I'm holding a small Phillips screw
driver in my mouth, and I'm hold up my hand to distinquish this photo from
the 21 other ones I took)

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/1998/focus.html
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/01/31/rhapsody-red-thumb.jpg
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/01/31/rhapsody-red.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/01/31/rhapsody-peace-thumb.jpg
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/01/31/rhapsody-peace.jpg
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/01/31/success.jpg

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