component-level repair

The title of this post can’t possibly capture the full extent of frustration that comes with repairing modern Canon cameras. We’ve got everything here: serious damage from minor water ingress, excessive reliance on proprietary ICs, and complete unavailability of component-level spare parts. Things are so bad that if you try to Google the part number of the faulty chip, you’ll find exactly this page, plus maybe one more - also from my own site. This Canon EOS R10 arrived with a straightforward backstory. It was bought for parts after "a little bit of water damage", with the idea of repairing and reselling it (not by me). However, the "simple repair" didn't pan out, and I received it with the diagnosis: "won't turn on" So let's disassemble it and dig deep into the circuitry of Canon's latest-generation mirrorless models.