Where To Repair Canon Power Shota570is

When my Catechism Powershot A570 IS drowned in the bottom of a Florida canoe in ane/3 inch of water (even in its example) it pushed me forward on a journeying of photographic camera collecting. You lot can see the damaged Canon A570 below with corrosion in dark-brown towards lesser right of the blackness display.

Canon PowerShot A570 with Water Corrosion

Canon Powershot A570 IS – Repair of Brandish

In brief, hither are the instructions.

Visit YouTube and study Canon A570 display screen repairs . Amazing, this German guy never even speaks and information technology makes perfect sense. Remove the battery get-go, unscrew lesser, left side, and right side screws (a total of 6 in video).
Buy tiny, magnetic screwdrivers such as the WIHA screwdrivers at Micro-Tools.

Why buy them after viewing the YouTube video? The video will convince you that the repair is reasonable and doable.
Brainstorm the repair during the daytime when you're non tired and you can focus. It's tempting to do a repair belatedly at dark when its quiet but you're tired. It'southward a bad idea. You lot can't make good repairs when you lot're tired at the stop of a long day.
Find a brilliant well lit work area where you can sit with expert posture and brainstorm your repair. I placed a clean dish towel on my kitchen counter to begin the piece of work and "take hold of" the screws without falling to the floor. Well-nigh likely they won't, the Canon Powershot A570 used magnetic screws and the WIHA screwdrivers are magnetic.
If y'all're cannibalizing 1 camera to fix another photographic camera, work on the donor camera first. Unscrew the donor camera and have the brandish screen that you want.
At present that you have conviction in taking the donor part, unscrew the recipient camera and swap out the bad display for the good display.
Test the photographic camera and you're done.

#5 – Working on the Donor Camera

In the photo below you can see that I unscrewed the donor camera. You tin can see the display screen I want to use.

Canon PowerShot A570 Scratched Display

#vii – Exam the Camera

I tested my improved Catechism Powershot A570 IS and it worked perfectly fine. It now had the unscratched display screen from my donor camera, an improvement.

Canon PowerShot A570 Repaired Back

Why did I repair a Canon Powershot A570?

I merely wanted to replace my Canon Powershot A570 IS. Just nostalgic on my part. Before drowning in the bottom of a canoe in Florida, my Canon A570 had photographed my girl's college graduation, a great trip to Hawaii, a scenic trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and parts of Florida. My Canon Powershot A570 was my re-introduction to photography.

Even though I dearest old film cameras I ever have my Canon SD880 with me equally fill-in (merely plain common sense). It was ever on my to do list to buy some other Canon Powershot A570.

On Craigslist I institute a Canon A570 for $20 in Syracuse, New York. After a few emails Sue agreed to a price and to send the camera to Chicago, IL. I had to smile when I read one of her emails:

And I'thousand sorry to say, my camera has no good stories. It was a good photographic camera and we had it for quite awhile, only nothing eventful happens to our cameras! (just us. haha)

The Canon A570 arrived (thanks Sue) and information technology worked merely fine. Its display screen was scratched more my erstwhile Canon A570 then that's why I did the minor brandish repair.

Pick a Junky Film Camera and Repair It

So why non effort to repair an old photographic camera before selling it on Craigslist or eBay? As I said, you will demand a few proficient tools, a bright work tabular array, and the belief that you tin make the repair. There'southward a pleasance in repairing an old Canon Powershot A570 IS and then it still works.

Canon PowerShot A570 Repaired Front

Honestly, if I can make a few pocket-sized repairs (Yashica Lynx 14, Super Ricohflex, Canon A570) then anyone has a take a chance to successfully repair a photographic camera. Keep information technology simple and believe in yourself.

Please leave a annotate describing your success or failure with any camera repair you take washed. And thanks for visiting What is a Film Camera today.