It used to publish the `model` values but found that so few repair events collected `model` values and the scant values that did turn up were not very useful. The data is compiled and published on a shoestring budget, so resources are very limited.
The purpose of the data has evolved over years as a response to and a source for various investigations and campaigns that feed into the European Right To Repair campaign. It is also used by individual repair groups and networks to demonstrate their work and achievements - both environmental and social - in order to garner support and funding. The main use of the dataset is as an overview of a glimpse of community repair activity worldwide.
Is there already a website to explore the dataset? I am starting out repairing old film cameras and there is documentation and tutorials, but it is very spread out between forums/reddit, how-tos in Flickr albums and a few websites who managed to grab a copy of official maintenance manuals
The data is not really helpful as a repair guide, it doesn't have any sort of "how-to", just small notes made during repair attempts, plus it only includes electrical/electronic devices.
>plus it only includes electrical/electronic devices.
It would still be very valuable. Fully mechanical cameras are, apart from some very specific components (e.g. titanium shutter blades in some high-end cameras), repairable. Electronic cameras with hand-soldered capacitors and big, individual electronic components are harder to work on (flexible circuit boards) but still possible. Fully electronic cameras... Let's just say in the coming decades, there is going to be a huge gap in camera history. A century-old Kodak or Agfa with bellows is still usable; the electronics in a polaroid SX-70 is so simple there is now aftermarket circuit boards to replace and extend them, adding Bluetooth controls; whereas a current top-of-the-line Canon/Nikon is going to be an unfixable paperweight within one human generation.
Aside from enthusiasts, I have worked a few months with (museum) conservators and this is very worrying to them. Same with cars.
[OP] cassepipe | 15 days ago
memco | 15 days ago
FixStuff | 14 days ago
The purpose of the data has evolved over years as a response to and a source for various investigations and campaigns that feed into the European Right To Repair campaign. It is also used by individual repair groups and networks to demonstrate their work and achievements - both environmental and social - in order to garner support and funding. The main use of the dataset is as an overview of a glimpse of community repair activity worldwide.
https://metabase.openrepair.org/dashboard/97-ora-data-overvi...
orangewindies | 14 days ago
kensai | 15 days ago
opengears | 15 days ago
FixStuff | 14 days ago
https://github.com/openrepair/data
Arodex | 14 days ago
FixStuff | 14 days ago
Arodex | 14 days ago
It would still be very valuable. Fully mechanical cameras are, apart from some very specific components (e.g. titanium shutter blades in some high-end cameras), repairable. Electronic cameras with hand-soldered capacitors and big, individual electronic components are harder to work on (flexible circuit boards) but still possible. Fully electronic cameras... Let's just say in the coming decades, there is going to be a huge gap in camera history. A century-old Kodak or Agfa with bellows is still usable; the electronics in a polaroid SX-70 is so simple there is now aftermarket circuit boards to replace and extend them, adding Bluetooth controls; whereas a current top-of-the-line Canon/Nikon is going to be an unfixable paperweight within one human generation.
Aside from enthusiasts, I have worked a few months with (museum) conservators and this is very worrying to them. Same with cars.
fuzzfactor | 14 days ago
That's why it's called a standard, and nothing less.
Otherwise it's always not quite ready for adoption.