In an effort to make one shutter release button for twoCanon A95 cameras I disassembled the top part of the camera.The images below are links to the corresponding stereophotographs that you could watch with theThe Stereoscope Appet, but on uCoz they are simply cross-eye stereoscopic pairs.Okay, let's see what's inside the camera.
There are two screws at the bottom of the battery compartment:
There is one screw inside the Compact Flash card compartment:
The upper one of the two screws on the left side of the cameraholds the top cover:
To dismantle the top cover, push the camera body on the back plainto the right from the viewfinder and LEDs:
To disconnect the top cover's flat cable from the camera body's
circuitry, move the tiny black handles of the connector.
That will release the pressing bar under the cable:
The top cover removed:
I did not disassemble the camera body:
The top cover has its own but passive circuitry:
There are also a few screws holding the circuitry plate:
The plate removed:
The microphone, the shutter release button, and the main dial contacts exposed:
I see no easy way to make a remote shutter release button primerely
because the elements are so tiny. Also, I found out that when
I press the camera's shutter release button half way, the connector
attached directly to the button just touches the surface of the
microbutton on the plate. And when I press the button full way,
it actually presses the microbutton.
Sergei Khizhiy
khizhiy [at] yandex.ru
December 28, 2005
