Terms of use

The licence

Unless a page says otherwise, everything here — the written documentation, the measurements, the board photography and the deep-zoom board map — is published under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

In plain terms, you may:

• Read it, print it, and use it to repair a camera — including a camera you are being paid to repair. Fixing hardware for a customer is using the documentation, not redistributing it.
• Quote and excerpt it, with a credit and a link back.
• Share it and build on it, provided you credit blackplasticdesign.com and release your version under the same terms.

What needs permission first:

• Republishing the photography or the board map, in whole or in substantial part, on another site or in a product.
• Commercial redistribution — selling the documentation, bundling it with a paid product, or reposting it on an ad-supported aggregator.
• Training or dataset use that redistributes the imagery.

Permission is usually a formality. Ask.

Contributions

Measurements and identifications sent through the contribute page are published under the same licence, credited to you unless you would rather they were not. You keep whatever rights you had; you are granting permission to publish, not signing them away.

If a correction shows something here is wrong, it gets changed and the old claim stays visible as a retraction. A discarded hypothesis is worth as much to the next engineer as a confirmed one.

Full-resolution source images

The written documentation — the hardware reference, the fault investigations and the component lookup — is open to everyone with no account. The photography is a separate matter: it represents a considerable amount of work, and it is the asset most likely to be lifted intact.

So the board map and the original full-resolution plate photographs behind it both need a free BlackPlastic Design account. It takes about a minute and asks for an email address and nothing else. If you want the plates for a repair, a teardown of your own, or to build on this work, sign in or ask and say what for.

The forum has its own separate account. The two are not connected.

No warranty, and a word about the obvious

This documentation is provided as-is. Board-level repair involves mains-derived supplies, lithium cells, and parts that are destroyed by static or heat. Everything here is offered in good faith and some of it will eventually turn out to be wrong. You are responsible for what you do to your own hardware.