You are absolutely right. LCD protectors are more or less as useful
as the UV filters dealers try to sell you when you buy a new lens--
basically they serve to pad someone's profit margin.
Nathan
On 29-feb-2008, at 16:57, AG Schnozz wrote:
>
> Speaking of LCD protectors, I finally "lost" my LCD protector for the
> E-1. I've been thinking of getting a new one, but the question is
> "why?"
>
> This is kinda like having slipcovers over your nice furniture to
> preserve it. You spend a fortune and hours upon hours getting a set
> of furniture in exactly the right fabric and color and then you throw
> a fitted white sheet over it. And I hate walking on plastic runners
> over the carpet!
>
> "Why?""
>
> Who are you saving it for?
>
> My A1 never had a cover over the LCD and it does show. The
> anti-reflective coating (yes, Minolta DID put an AR coating on the
> LCD--Canon are you listening?) is a bit spiderwebbed now, but nothing
> bad. But the E-1's screen has remained prestine as they also put a
> hardened coating on the glass.
>
> Everytime I think of doing LCD protection (and I have a few times
> with cut-down palm-pilot protectors), I look at the compromised image
> on the LCD and ask myself who I'm saving the camera for?
>
> It's not like these cameras are going to hold any major value. My
> E-1 is already scratched up from pounding rocks. The A1 is reaching
> the end of being serviced by Sony--when it dies, it's totally toast.
>
> We're going to have an entire generation of digital cameras that are
> prestine on the outside, dead on the inside--nothing more than shiny,
> expensive paperweights.
>
> Who are we saving our stuff for?
>
> AG
>
>
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