Samsung PL-50 Service manual

SAMSUNG PL 50

B Type : SAMSUNG SL202

SERVICE

Manual

DIGITAL CAMERA

CONTENS

1. Product Specification

2. Operation Instruction & Installation

3. Exploded View and Parts List

4. Firmware Update

5. Alignment

6. Block Diagram

7. PCB Diagrams

8. Schematic Diagrams

9. Disassembly and Reassembly

Printed in Korea

EC-PL50

Contents

1. Product Specification

1-1 Specifi cations ............................................................................... 1-1

1-2 Instructions on how to use the memory card .................................... 1-4

1-3 LCD monitor indicator ..................................................................... 1-5

1-4 Camera Connection Diagram .......................................................... 1-7

1-5 Identifi cation of features ................................................................ 1-8

2. Operation Instruction & Installation

2-1 Install ............................................................................................ 2-1

2-2 FAQ ...............................................................................................2-5

3. Exploded View and Parts List

3-1 Body Assembly .............................................................................. 3-1

3-2 MAIN Assembly-1 ........................................................................... 3-2

3-3 MAIN Assembly-2 ........................................................................... 3-3

3-4 Chamber Assembly ........................................................................ 3-4

3-5 Front Cover Assembly .................................................................... 3-6

3-6 Back Cover Assembly ..................................................................... 3-8

3-7 Middle Cover Assembly ................................................................ 3-10

3-8 Top PCB Assembly ....................................................................... 3-11

3-9 Barrel Assembly ........................................................................... 3-12

3-10 Packing Item .............................................................................. 3-15

4. Firmware update

4-1 Product reset ................................................................................. 4-1

4-2 Version check ................................................................................ 4-2

4-3 Upgrade......................................................................................... 4-3

4-4 Full upgrade................................................................................... 4-5

Contents

5. Adjustment

5-1 Basic guide for adjustment ............................................................. 5-1

5-2 Lens Shading ................................................................................. 5-3

5-3 Shutter Close Time ADJ .................................................................. 5-4

5-4 CCD Gain ADJ ............................................................................... 5-5

5-5 Flash ADJ ...................................................................................... 5-6

5-6 Focus ADJ ..................................................................................... 5-7

5-7 B/T Level ADJ ................................................................................ 5-9

5-8 CCD Defect ADJ ............................................................................ 5-9

5-9 BackLash ADJ .............................................................................. 5-10

5-10 Burning ADJ ............................................................................... 5-10

6. Block Diagram

7. PCB Diagrams

7-1 Main PCB (TOP) ............................................................................ 7-1

7-2 Main PCB (Bottom) ........................................................................ 7-2

8. Schematic Diagrams

8-1 Main PCB-1 ................................................................................... 8-1

8-2 Main PCB-2 ................................................................................... 8-2

8-3 Main PCB-3 ................................................................................... 8-3

8-4 Main PCB-4 ................................................................................... 8-4

8-5 Main PCB-5 ................................................................................... 8-5

8-6 Main PCB-6 ................................................................................... 8-6

8-7 Main PCB-7 ................................................................................... 8-7

9. Disassembly and reassembly

9-1 Disassembly of main unit ................................................................ 9-1

9-2 Barrel disassembly ......................................................................... 9-6

1. Product Specification

1-1 Specifi cations

Image Sensor - Type : 1/2.33” CCD

- Effective Pixel : Approx. 10.2 Mega-pixel

- Total Pixel : Approx. 10.3 Mega-pixel

Lens - Focal Length : SAMSUNG Lens f = 6.2 ~ 18.6mm (35mm ﬁlm equivalent : 35 ~ 105mm)

- F No. : F2.8(W) ~ F5.2(T)

- Digital Zoom : ·Still Image mode :1.0X ~ 3.0X

- Play mode : 1.0X ~ 11.4X (depends on image size) Image Stabilization - DIS (Digital Image Stabilization)

LCD Monitor - 2.7” color TFT LCD (230,000 dots)

Focusing - Type : TTL auto focus (Multi AF, Center AF, Face Detection AF)

- Range

Product Speciﬁcation

Normal Macro Auto Macro

Wide

80cm ~ Inﬁnity

Tele 50cm ~ 80cm 50cm ~ Inﬁnity

Shutter - Auto : 1/8 ~ 1/1,500 sec., Program : 1 ~ 1/1,500 sec.,

- Night : 8 ~ 1/1,500 sec., Firework : 4 sec.

Exposure - Control : Program AE

- Metering : Multi, Spot, Center-Weighted, Face Detection AE

- Compensation : ±2EV (1/3EV steps)

- ISO : Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

Flash - Modes : Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in ﬂash, Slow sync, Flash off, Red Eye Fix

- Range : Wide : 0.2m ~ 4.5m, Tele : 0.5m ~ 2.4m

- Recharging Time : Approx. 4 sec

Sharpness - Soft+, Soft, Normal, Vivid, Vivid+

White Balance - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent_H, Fluorescent_L, Tungsten, Custom

Voice Recording - Voice Recording (max. 10 hours)

- Voice Memo in Still Image (max. 10 sec.)

5cm ~ 80cm 5cm ~ Inﬁnity

Date Imprinting - Date, Date & Time, Off (user selectable)

Shooting - Still Image

·Mode : Auto, Program, DIS, Photo Help Guide, Beauty Shot, Scene, Smart Auto

·Scene : Frame Guide, Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Firework, Beach & Snow

·Shooting : Single, Continuous, Motion Capture, AEB

·Smart Auto : Macro, Macro Text, Macro Colour, White, Landscape, Action, Tripod, Night, Night

Portrait, Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Portrait

·Self-timer : 10 sec., 2 sec., Double, Motion Timer

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- Movie Clip

· With Audio or without Audio (user selectable, recording time : max 2 hours)

·Size : 640x480, 320x240

· Frame rate : 30 fps, 15 fps

· 3X Optical Zoom and Mute in Zooming

· Movie Editing (Embedded): Pause during recording, Still Image Capture

Storage - Media

·Internal memory : About 9MB ﬂash memory

· External memory (Optional) : MMC card (Up to 1GB guaranteed) SD card (Up to 2GB guaranteed) SDHC card (Up to 8GB guaranteed)

- File Format

·Still Image : JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.21, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0

·Movie Clip : AVI (MJPEG)

·Audio : WAV

- Image Size

3648X

2736

9 7

3648X

2432

3648X

2052

3072X

2304

2592X

1944

2048X

1536

1024X

768

- Capacity (1GB Size)

9 7

Super Fine About 182 About 199 About 251 About 251 About 333 About 493 About 1234

Fine About 333 About 361 About 440 About 444 About 576 About 812 About 1668

Normal About 471 About 510 About 611 About 617 About 791 About 1064 About 1870

※ These ﬁgures are measured under Samsung standard conditions and may vary depending on shooting conditions

and camera settings.

Effect - Effect : Photo Style Selector, Image Adjust (Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation)

- Editing : Resize, Rotate, Photo Style Selector, Image Adjust (ACB, Face Retouch, Red Eye Fix, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Add Noise)

Image Play - Type : Single image, Thumbnails, Multi slide show, Movie Clip

Multi slide show : Slide show with Effect & Music

Interface - Digital output connector : USB 2.0

- Audio : Microphone: Mono, Internal Speaker: Mono

- Video output : NTSC, PAL (user selectable)

- DC power input connector : 4.2 V

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Power Source - Rechargeable battery : SLB-10A, 3.7V (1050mAh)

- Charger: SAC-47  ※ Included battery may vary depending on sales region.

Dimensions (WxHxD) - 89 X 56.5 X 21.5mm (excluding protrusions)

Weight - Approx. 116.1g (without batteries and card)

Operating Temperature - 0 ~ 40°C

Operating Humidity - 5 ~ 85%

Software - Samsung Master, Adobe Reader

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Card pins

Write protect switch

Label

1-2 Instructions on how to use the memory card

The camera can use SD/SDHC Memory Cards and MMC (Multi Media Cards).

Fig. 1-1 SD (Secure Digital) memory card

● The SD/SDHC memory card has a write protect switch that prevents image fi les from being deleted or formatted. By sliding the switch to the bottom of the SD/SDHC memory card, the data will be protected. By sliding the switch to the top of the SD/SDHC memory card, the data protection will be cancelled.

● Slide the switch to the top of the SD/SDHC memory card before taking a picture.

When using a 1GB SD memory, the speci ed shooting capacity will be as follows. These  gures are approximate as image capacities can be affected by variables such as subject matter and memory card type.

Recorded image size Super Fine Fine Normal 30 FPS 15 FPS

Still

image

*Movie

clip

■ The zoom button doesn’t use during the movie recording. The recording times can be changed by the zoom operation. You can record videos of up to 4GB or 2hours each.

640

320

About 182 About 333 About 471

About 199 About 361 About 510

About 251 About 440 About 611

About 251 About 444 About 617

About 333 About 576 About 791

About 493 About 812 About 1064

About 1234 About 1668 About 1870

About 07:06 About 13:55

About 26:25 About 49:24

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1-3 LCD monitor indicator

■ The LCD monitor displays information about the shooting functions and selections.

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Fig. 1-2 Image & Full Status

No. Description Icons

Optical / Digital Zoom bar / Digital Zoom rate

Recording mode

Voice Memo

Number of available shots remaining 00001

Remaining time 00:00:00

Memory card icon / Internal memory icon

Battery

Flash

Self-timer

Macro

Photo Style Selector

Face Detection

Face Tone

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Fig. 1-3 Image & Full Status

No. Description Icons

Face Retouch / Without Sound

Date / Time 2009/01/01 01:00 PM

Camera shake Warning

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Auto Focus Frame

Drive mode

Metering

Image Quality / Frame Rate

Image Size

ISO

White Balance

Exposure compensation

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1-4 Camera Connection Diagram

Card Reader

SD Memory

USB Cable

AV Cable

TV Monitor

PC(OS: Windows)/

Lap top Computer

AC Adaptor

Fig. 1-4 Camera Connection Diagram

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1-5 Identifi cation of features

Front & Top

Back

Shutter button

Speaker

AF sensor /

Self-timer lamp

Power button

Microphone

Flash

Lens/ Lens cover

Fig. 1-5 Front & Top

LCD monitor

Camera status lamp

MENU button

5 function button

Play mode button

Fn / Delete button

Zoom Tele(T) button / Digital zoom

Zoom Wide(W) button / Thumbnail

Strap eyelet

USB / AV / DC terminal

Mode Dial

Fig. 1-6 Back

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Bottom

Battery chamber

Memory card slot

Function button

Battery chamber cover

Tripod socket

Flash / Left button

Battery holder

Fig. 1-7 Bottom

Information / Up button

Self-timer / Right button

OK / Play & Pause button

Macro / Down button

Fig. 1-8 Function button

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Memo

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2. Operation Instruction & Installation

2-1 Install

2-1-1 System Requirements

CPU PC with processor better than Pentium III 500MHz (Pentium III 800MHz recommended)

RAM Minimum 256MB RAM (Over 512MB recommended)

OS Windows 2000 / XP / Vista

Available hard disk space 250MB of available hard disk space (Over 1GB recommend)

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USB port

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CD-ROM Drive

The other

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1024x768 Pixels, 16bit color

display compatible monitor (24bit color display recommended)

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Microsoft Direct X 9.0 or later

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Caution

■ It is not compatible with Windows XP and Vista 64-bit Edition.

■ Samsung is not responsible for any defects or damages caused by the use of unauthorized computer

including an assembled PC.

CPU Power Mac G3 or later

RAM Minimum 256MB RAM (Over 512MB recommended)

OS Mac OS 10.3 or later

Available hard disk space

The other

Minimum 256MB RAM (Over 512MB recommended)

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USB port

●

CD-ROM Drive

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1024x768 Pixels, 16bit color

display compatible monitor (24bit color display recommended)

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2-1-2 About the software

1) After inserting the CD-ROM provided with this camera into the CD-ROM drive, the following window

should automatically run

Samsung Digital Camera Installer

Fig. 2-1

■ Samsung Master : This is the all-in-one multi media software solution.

You can download, view, edit and save your digital images and movie clips with this software. This software is only compatible with Windows.

■ You should allow 5 ~ 10 seconds for running the automatic setup program according to the capability of your computer. If the frame does not appear, run the [Windows Explorer] and select [Installer.exe] in the CD-ROM Drive root directory.

2-1-3 Setting up the application software

1) To use this camera with a PC, install the application software rst. After this has been done, the stored images in the camera can be moved to the PC and can be edited by an image editing program.

■ You can visit the Samsung web-site through the internet.

http://www.samsungcamera.com : English http://www.samsungcamera.co.kr : Korean

q The auto run frame will display. Click the [Samsung Digital Camera Installer] menu in the Auto run frame.

Fig. 2-2

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w Install DirectX, Samsung Master by selecting a button shown on the monitor.

If a recent version of DirectX has been installed on your computer, DirectX may not be installed.

Fig. 2-3

e After restarting the computer, connect the PC to the camera with the USB cable.

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r Turn the camera power on. The [Found New Hardware Wizard] will open and

the computer will recognise the camera.

Fig. 2-4

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If your OS is Windows XP/ Vista, an image viewer program will open.

■ PDF documents of user manual are included in the Software CD-ROM supplied with this camera. Search the PDF les with

Windows explorer. Before opening the PDF les, you must install the Adobe Reader included in the Software CD-ROM. Install Adobe Reader from the CD provided. If the Internet is not enabled, install Adobe Reader by using the executable le

located in the CD.

■ To install the Adobe Reader 6.0.1 correctly, Internet Explorer 5.01 or later has to be installed. Visit “www.microsoft.com” and upgrade the Internet Explorer.

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2-2 FAQ

■ Please check the following if the USB connection malfunctions.

Case 1

Case 2

USB cable is not connected or it is not the supplied USB cable.

Connect the supplied USB cable.

The camera is not recognised by your PC. Sometimes, the camera may appear under

[Unknown Devices] in Device Manager.

Turn off the camera, remove the USB cable, plug in the USB cable again, and then turn on the camera.

Case 3

Case 4

Case 5

There is an unexpected error during le transfer.

Turn the camera power off and on again. Transfer the le again.

When using the USB hub.

There may be a problem in connecting the camera to the PC through the USB hub if the PC and the hub are

not compatible. Wherever possible, connect the camera to the PC directly.

Are other USB cables connected to the PC?

The camera may malfunction when it is connected to the PC at the same time as another USB cable.

In this case, disconnect the other USB cable, and connect only one USB cable to the camera.

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Case 6

When I open the Device Manager (by clicking Start -> (Settings) -> Control Panel -> (Performance and Maintenance)

-> System -> (Hardware) -> Device Manager), there are Unknown Devices or Other Devices entries with a yellow

question mark(?) beside them or devices with an exclamation mark(!) beside them.

Right-click on the entry with the question (?) or exclamation (!) mark and select “Remove”. Restart the PC

and connect the camera again.

Case 7

In some security programs (Norton Anti Virus, V3, etc.), the computer may not recognise the camera

as a removable disk.

Stop the security programs and connect the camera to the computer. Refer to the security program

instructions about how to temporarily disable the program.

Case 8

The camera is connected to the USB port located on the front of the computer.

When the camera is connected to the USB port located on the front of the computer, the computer may not

recognise the camera. Connect the camera to the USB port located on the back of the computer.

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3. Exploded View and Parts List

3-1 Body Assembly

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Exploded View and Parts List

1-1

1-2

Loc. No Parts No. Description Q ty Available Remark

1-1 6001-002264 SCREW (MACHINE)1.4X4.5 P0.30 Φ2.8 4 X

1-2 6003-001739 SCREW (TAP TITE)1.4X4.0 P0.45 Φ2.8 2 X

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Exploded View and Parts List

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3-2 MAIN Assembly-1

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Loc. No Parts No. Description Q ty Available Remark

2-1 AD97-17078A MAIN ASSY-SUB_SL 1 X

2-2 AD61-04008A HOLDER-KEY FPCB 1 X

2-3 AD07-00105A LCD 1 O

2-4 AD92-00730A SMD FPCB ASSY-KE 1 X

2-5 6003-001633 SCREW (TAP TITE)1.4X3.0 P0.45 Φ2.5 2 X

2-6 AD92-00731A FPCB ASSY-KEY 1 O

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Exploded View and Parts List

3-3 MAIN Assembly-2

3-5

3-1

3-4

3-3

3-2

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Loc. No Parts No. Description Q ty Available Remark

3-1 AD97-17078A MAIN ASSY-SUB_SL 1 X

3-2 AD92-00729A MAIN_PCB_ASSY 1 O

3-3 AD97-16767A BARREL ASSY 1 O

3-4 AD92-00733A CCD FPCB ASSY 1 O

3-5 6003-001630 SCREW (TAP TITE)1.4X3.5 P0.45 Φ2.5 5 X

3-6 6003-001633 SCREW (TAP TITE)1.4X3.0 P0.45 Φ2.5 3 X

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3-4 Chamber Assembly

4-2

4-17

4-3

4-15

4-4

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4-9

4-8

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4-6

4-1

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