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Here we accept some advice about what I accept to be the #1 camera adjustment issue: burst LCD screens.
We alive in a departure society, it's a simple fact. You buy that cast new adorned digital camera with all the accretion and whistles for $400, and in 6 months to 1 year it's account maybe bisected that, and again the absurd happens: you bead it and it breaks. The LCD is cracked, or the lens is jammed; what do you do? You arch aback to the abundance with your poor little camera and the guy abaft the adverse (that knows annihilation about cameras except for what's accounting on the box, and alike beneath about camera repair) tells you it's not account it to fix it and you should bung it in the trash. You feel ripped off and mad at the camera architect and you bung it out and buy a new one fabricated by somebody else.
There are alternatives, there are ALWAYS alternatives to every problem. Honest! Yes, it may amount $100 to fix your camera, and yes you can buy that camera in the balloon backpack on the shelf at W**l M**t (they don't pay my bills... I don't acquaint their name, sorry) for beneath than $100, but what affectionate of affection do you candidly apprehend from a $100 camera? Not absolute acceptable affection I hope, because you're not activity to get it.
#1 - Broken/cracked LCD screen.
It was adamantine for me to accept amid a awash lens and a burst LCD awning but I ashore with LCD for #1 because it's so accessible to breach your LCD that you don't alike accept to blow the camera to do it!
The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is the appearance awning on the aback of the camera that lets you see menus, playback pictures etc. The LCD is absolute thin, absolute fragile, and on abounding Abounding cameras absolutely UNPROTECTED! Look at the aback of your camera, is the awning recessed hardly or is the aback of the camera collapsed and smooth? If it's collapsed you accept a accurate 'window' or 'glass' over the LCD to advice anticipate accident and breakage. If it's not flat, you accept annihilation attention your LCD and should put a acceptable affection LCD awning protector on the camera and NOT those thin, chiffon 'saran wrap' artificial blur awning protectors, they are worthless.
- Don't leave your camera in your car in summer or winter. acute calefaction can account amplification of the aqueous in the LCD and account it to 'crack', and on the added ancillary of things acute algid can account it to freeze!
- Don't put annihilation up adjoin the LCD in your camera bag, it will blast adjoin the LCD and able it (yes, alike if it has a window over it, it will break!)
- Don't put your camera in your aback abridged and again sit down!
- Don't put your camera in your advanced abridged and again cycle over on it.
-... aloof don't put your camera in your pants abridged please. =)
Ok, so it's broken, what do you do now?
- The architect will aloof armpit appulse accident and will debris the adjustment alike if the camera wasn't alone etc. You can try, and I ambition you luck, but they apparently won't fix it.
- Look for a abnormal camera on e**y (hey they don't pay me to acquaint for them...) and accomplish one acceptable camera from the two if you are handy.
- Look for an absolute camera adjustment business and not somebody that will accelerate it to the architect and acquaint you it's $200 and 4-6 weeks to repair. (IF they acquaint you this, they are NOT acclimation your camera for you, they are sending it to the manufacturer, guaranteed)
Many LCD screens are absolute accessible to install and you can do it yourself and all you charge is a baby screwdriver. added LCD's are absolute difficult to install, and alike professionals don't like to do them! I can't acquaint you Brand.... is the best and Brand... is the worst, it's absolutely not like that. Certain SERIES of cameras accept 1 or 2 models that are difficult to assignment on, yet the blow of them are adequately beeline forward. You charge to adjudge for yourself if you appetite to accessible your camera and try the adjustment yourself or not.
How is an LCD replaced?
With best Canon digital camera LCD screens for archetype (using them as the archetype because they accept the better bazaar share) all you do is abstract the award cable for the LCD and the backlight (the ablaze that shines through the LCD and allows you to see what is on the screen) and again install the new LCD. Some appear with the backlight attached, some do not. Some backlights charge to be anchored to the mainboard of the camera, some do not.
- Be accurate to not blow the beam capacitor contacts! You WILL zap yourself if you do, and it will HURT a bit. You will apparently bandy your camera beyond the allowance back it happens. (Yeah, I've done it, I've been acclimation cameras for 5 years now so....) We accept 'flash capacitor dischargers' and use them every time we accessible a camera.
I achievement this sheds some ablaze on the subject. You do not accept to bandy your camera abroad because the LCD is broken, and you can alike fix it yourself!
Thomas Drayton
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