Kodak EasyShare C913 repair

I'm pretty hard on my digital cameras. It's been a while so I'm not sure what mistreatment caused my Kodak EasyShare C913's screen to go all fuzzy...

...but it probably has to do with my habit of just tossing the camera into a banjo gig bag or carrying it around in my hip pocket.

I thought of this busted camera, which has been sitting on a shelf for some time, when I ran across a YouTube video showing how easy it is to replace a broken digital camera screen.

So I took my camera apart with a plan to find the part number of the broken screen and ordering a replacement. (You can get replacement screens on eBay for $15-$20.)

But when I got it open I found that the screen's internal connector...

...was loose and just needed a little nudge to make things right again.

It's too bad I didn't know that before I purchased a replacement camera last year.

Speaking of which, my next repair task is to fix the replacement camera, which seems to have suffered an even worse fate than its predecessor.

Scanning Grandma's photos

I spent a chunk of Labor Day weekend at Grandma's, scanning some great old photos. Here's a quick, techie outline of my approach. Comments are invited.

• I scanned to loss-less TIF for quality.
• I scanned at 600 dpi for most photos, 1200 dpi for the most important photos.
• I want to upload the files to a private area on Flickr so that family and friends can create their own prints.
• I plan to create a build script that will accept one XML file per photo (containing caption and such information) and will use...
  • IrfanView to convert the TIF to a JPG,
  • EXIFutils to add EXIF information like caption and tags, and
  • PowerShell to hook the whole thing together.