Like manufacturers who solder the USB port to a critical board that must
be reprogrammed with software they won't provide. USB port is known from
breaking off the board an/or cracking. It then requires complete board
replacement and reprogramming.
OM-4T circuit may still be available (still $250 or whatever) but when
you send your 4T to Olympus (assuming they still service it) they don't
charge you for the circuit (unless tampered, impact, sand, water damage).
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Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
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631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
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Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Yes but if you mount a fragile component on to a major critical
> component and only sell them as a spare part as a complete module at
> half the price of a new camera, someone's going to say $600 plus $300
> labour? I'll just get a new one for $1100." Basically you've ramped
> up the cost of a $25 part into a new sale. I think we saw this
> problem with the flexible circuit in the OM4 - replaceable but hardly
> worth it.
> It's the rough equivalent of finding that your car's water pump or
> oil pump has failed, being told that it's an integral part of the
> engine block (welded to it) and so you'll have to replace the whole
> engine.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 28/01/2008, at 6:05 AM, Dan Mitchell wrote:
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>
>> 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.
>
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