Black clouds in LCD display

When the LCD panel in your Minolta Maxxum 9000 starts to show black portions in it, is there any hope a replacement panel can be found for repair? The camera is in very good cosmetic and mechanical condition but there are apparently dead portions in the main LCD panel and a small portion of the viewfinder LCD display. Is this a common problem with these cameras? Can someone recommend a repair service for these cameras? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Stan

There is no practical repair for the display itself.
Though I never came across any such damage at any camera body so far, only at one data back. But I experienced one display at a meter from a different field disintegrating completey within 10 years. In general my experience is that such fault is rare. But likely it is the fate of any LCD Display.

"is there any hope a replacement panel can be found for repair?"

The camera model is not really rare. So sooner or later you may find and beaten sample to salvage. I do not know how deep into the innards you must go to resolder the connections. Keep off any foil leader connections directly at the LCD, as hampering there can form another fault...

Unless that deterioration is not model of display dependant, but pure erratic, you may soon experience the same fault at your replaced display. But as indicated I lack experience in number to say whether such fault is actually model dependant.

Your only choices are (1) buy a replacement part from Minolta, which are probably no longer available, or (2) scavenge a part from a junker camera. I have seen the same ink-blot-shaped failure on one of my two Maxxum 7000s, so this might be a common failure. And note that "LCD display" is redundant.
Mark Overton

AgX said:

I never came across any such damage at any camera body so far, only at one data back.

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Today I came across a Minolta 7000 with blackening of the edges of its LCD, but I came across before other samples of this model and their LCD was fine.