Fading LCD Displays on Film Bodies.

[Fotogeorge]

Minolta Maxxums

My Minolta Maxxums (M800si, M7, M9) are all fine. I haven't seen any problems with the LCDs or the viewfinders. I'm sure they will all outlive me.
I have noticed problems with HP PDA LCDs after 3-5 years. I wonder how long the LCD screen on my TV will last.

 

[lens_hacker]

1983 Nikon F3AF reporting in- LCD is just fine. The manual tells me it needed to be replaced in 1990.

 

[Ralph Javins]

Good morning;

There does seem to be great variation in the life expectancy of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD). Many of my devices that use them do not get constant use, but in the last 35 years or so, only a couple have developed problems. Leaving them open on the dashboard of a car in the summer sunlight does not help. I have performed the alcohol swabbing task on the elastomer connecting strip of the LCD display of my venerable circa 1980 Kenwood TM-241A mobile radio to restore it to service. (Please note that I DO NOT recommend the use of pencil erasers on PCB contacts and other contacts with gold flashing. It removes the thin protective gold coating - it is not plating - and leaves the base metal exposed to corrosion.) The LCD display of both of my Icom IC-735 radios are still going fine, and one of them has been in daily use for almost thirty (30) years of operation. My hp-41-CX calculator 15 segment LCD from the early 1970's is still going. There is also an early Timex watch LCD display from the 1970's that is still going.

Yes, the red seven segment Light Emitting Diode (LED) displays do seem to have an even greater life expectancy.

While my Canon DSLR cameras and the Minolta Maxxum 9 also have LCD, I am not too worried about them. If all else fails, I can always pick up one of my Minolta SR-T or the Nikon F or F2, and keep going. Assuming, of course, that there is still film.

 

[Ann M]

Canon T90 LCD

Hi there!

This thread made me go and have a look at my Canon T90, which was bought second-hand a good few years ago. I've never (yet...) had any problems with the LCD but I was dreading that happening! (Too many lenses, macro-flash and other bits that can't be used with anything other than FD )

However , I realise that, since I always use the camera in manual mode and with spot-metering, I will get almost all of the info I need from the viewfinder. That's maybe a more basic way of working but there's lots of features I never use anyway e.g exposure compensation - I just work out what I want and set it on the lens.

The main problem will be knowing how much film has been used. I would need to keep a note of frames used, perhaps by sticking a label on the back of the camera to tick for each frame. I'm going to have to always keep a spare film handy for when it finishes unexpectedly! Thank goodness the T90 has auto-rewind!

So I will enjoy using my T90 while it still has an apparently perfect LCD and when it does eventually go I'll be able to keep using it anyway.