Photos: Disassembling a digital camera

Digital cameras are everywhere, but what makes them work? Learn how a digital camera is put together in these photos of a disassembled ViviCam, a common 3.3-megapixel model

This camera has a pretty simple set of user controls. Here's the Vivitar with its lens shield open -- revealing the unit's lens and macro/landscape/portrait switch.

(CNET.co.uk's sister site TechRepublic runs a regular series called 'Cracking Open' in which they take a look inside a variety of gadgets. CNET.co.uk is publishing this excerpt.)

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