Here is some information on what I think question # 1 appliance repair: Broken LCD screens.
We live in a society launch is a simple fact. To purchase this luxury brand new digital camera with all the bells and whistles for $ 400, and 6 months to 1 year, perhaps half, and then the unthinkable happens: you drop and break it. The LCD screen is cracked or the lens is blocked, what do you do? You head to the store with his camera and the poor guy behind the counter (who knows nothing about cameras, so it is written on the box, and even less on repairs to the camera) tells you not worth repairing and that must discard the trash. You feel cheated and angry against the manufacturer of the device and placed in the door and buy a new one made by someone else.
There are alternatives, there are always solutions to every problem. Really! Yes, that is priced at $ 100 to fix your camera, and yes you can buy this camera in bubble wrap in the Plateau W ** SM ** t (not pay my bills … not publish their names, sorry) for less than $ 100, but what kind of quality do you honestly expect from a camera $ 100? Not very good, I hope we're not going to get.
# 1 – Broken / Cracked LCD.
It was hard for me to choose between a lens stuck and broken the LCD, but I stuck with the LCD # 1 because it is very easy to break with its LCD screen you do not even need to touch the device to do it!
The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is seen in the back of the camera will allow menu navigation, playback pictures, etc. The display LCD is very thin, very fragile, and many many cameras are not completely protected! Look at the back of the camera, or is the screen is slightly recessed behind smooth plane of the camera? If plane is a window of protection "or" crystal "on the LCD screen to help prevent damage and breakage. If this is not is flat, you have nothing to protect your LCD screen and must send a good quality LCD screen protector for the device and not the thin, fragile "saran wrap" screensavers plastic film, which are useless.
– Do not leave the device in your car in summer or winter. Extreme heat can cause expansion the liquid in the LCD and lead to "crack" and the other side of things, extreme cold can lead to blockage!
– Do not do anything against LCD on your camera bag, it will strike against the LCD and crack (yes, even if you have a window in it, it breaks!)
– Do not place the camera in the back pocket and then sit down!
– Do not Turn the camera on the front pocket, and then move the cursor over it.
– … Simply not put your camera in the pocket of your pants please. =)
Ok, then it breaks, what do you do now?
– The manufacturer has room Impact damage and refuse to repair even if the camera did not retire, etc. You can try, and I wish him good luck, but probably will not fix it.
– For a faulty device on e ** y (hey, do not pay me to advertise for them …) and make a good camera if you two are very practical.
– Search a company to repair the real camera and not someone who will send it to the manufacturer and say that is $ 200 and 4-6 weeks for repair. (If you say it, the repair camera for you, they are sending to the manufacturer's warranty)
Many LCD screens are very easy to install and can make yourself and you only need a small screwdriver. Other LCD screens are very difficult to install, and even professionals do not please them! I can not tell the brand …. is the best and mark … the worst is really not. Some series of cameras that have 1 or 2 models that are difficult to work, but the rest is pretty simple. You must decide for Self If you want to open the camera and try the repair yourself or not.
How does a LCD replacement?
With most devices Canon digital cameras, such as LCD screens (using as an example because they have the largest market share), simply disconnect the ribbon cable from the LCD and the light background (the light that shines through the screen and lets see what is on screen), then install the new LCD. Some come with the backlight attached others do not. Some backlight must be soldered to the motherboard chamber, others not.
– Be careful not to touch the contacts of the flash capacitor! That zapping ago if it does, and will hurt a bit. You probably will release his camera across the room when it happens. (Yes I did, I have been repairing cameras for 5 years now, we have ….) capacitors' discharge flash and use it every time we open a camera.
I hope that sheds some light on the subject. Do not throw away your camera because you have broken your LCD screen, and you can even fix yourself!
Thomas Drayton
Thomas Drayton is the Owner of http://www.Darntoothysam.com, an online camera repair shop specializing in Canon Digital Camera Repair as well as all other major brands, repairing hundreds of customer cameras per month.
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