Servicibility does not seem to be a consideration. Soldered card sockets
can often be replaced.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com | omtech1 AT verizon.net
Dan Mitchell wrote:
> John Hermanson wrote:
>
>>This is how Olympus factory Service can stick it to outside repair
>>shops. Some of the cameras are designed with the card slots mounted to
>>the board, slot parts not available separately. Sometimes they are and
>>can be found in models of other manufacturers.
>
>
> Could this also be to keep body size down, though? The amount of room
> taken up by a card reader mounted directly on the board will be a lot
> smaller than card reader -> socket -> connector -> cable -> connector ->
> socket on the board, though the intermediate cable makes things much
> easier to repair -- even just mounting the card reader on a socket
> directly on the board still requires more room because of the extra
> connectors.
>
> -- dan
>
>
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