Annoying Little Screen Scratches
Findind scratches on things I own can sometimes drive me crazy. Specifically scratches on the liquid crystal display (LCD) of my Nikon D3200 camera. A small group of tiny scratches that I cannot remove or ignore. How the scratches got there, or how long they have been there, I am not certain. I just recently found them. Now It annoys me to no end.
For the first while that I owned my camera, I left the protective shipping plastic cover on the screen until it lost its adhesiveness and peeled off. Although I looked for replacement plastic, I was not able to find any. The food plastic wrap I tried did not work well. The manual does not give any instruction on how to protect the screen from scratching, or any warning, only how to clean the screen. From this, I came to believe the screen must be made durable enough to not scratch easily. That belief appears to be wrong.
It is true the minor scratching does not have any effect on the photo taking ability of the camera, and the damage is hardly noticeable, but I paid for the camera, took care of the camera (so I thought) and less than two years later it has this annoying little damage.
The screen has been rubbed with a soft cloth like mad as I try to remove the marks to no avail. There are lots of dubious ways on the Internet on how to fix such damage. No thank you! I am not putting toothpaste or petroleum jelly on my camera!
My anger is mostly directed at myself. I should have taken extra care of my camera, but I am also a bit angry at Nikon for not providing a permanent protective cover for the screen to prevent these nicks and scratches that are bound to happen without any protection.
Unless there is some way of repairing this very minor damage, I am going got have to live with it as a reminder to obsessively protect these types of screens in the future.
© Trevor Dailey
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