There’s not a lot of advice on this website that begins with me telling you to take your camera into the bathroom, but that is what I’m going to suggest to you today.
For the longest time I really had it in for LCD screen protectors and I never bothered to use them. I believed them to be difficult to apply correctly to the camera, and too detrimental to the image quality on the screen for it to really be worth the hassle. One day I purchased a camera that I knew I wasn’t going to need to keep that long, and I figured I should take great care of it to really keep the resale value high. I finally gave an LCD protector a chance, and ended up buying one from B&H Photo called the Expert Shield. To make a long story short, I now put an Expert Shield on every camera I own! These things turned out to be amazing!
When you’re ready to apply your LCD screen protector you obviously need to give the screen a good cleaning first to get all the grease and dust off it. Expert Shield actually provide a lens cloth in each package, so you know you’re starting with a nice fresh one. Once cleaned though, there can still be dust in the air that begins to settle into your screen before you have had time to apply the protector.
One of the tips I picked up about these things, is to go into your bathroom, turn the hot taps on and close the door for 5 minutes before you apply the shield! The steam that builds up in there prevents dust from flying around, and gives you a nice clean environment to apply the protector. You still need to be careful and and apply it slowly to get a bubble free covering, but you won’t get small dots and bumps from lint or dust being trapped between the protector and the screen.
Pretty cool, huh?
Out of sheer curiosity, do the screen protectors also fix the blackout issues you get on the LCDs when wearing polarized sunglasses? My G85’s screen blacks out when I rotate it into portrait, hence why the inquiry (I wear prescription polarized sunglasses due to eyes being sensitive to light and glare causing some real issues for me when out and about during the day)
No it doesn’t fix that unfortunately. That’s a really interesting case that I have not considered before. That must be rather annoying to deal with.
It can be problematic on some cameras (like say the EM-5 mk II, where a massive “templar cross” shaped blackout winds up blocking out most of the EVF if your sunglasses are polarized), but thankfully most of the time it’s a simple case of having an idea of your intended composition and then quickly tilting your head to see enough and confirm ^_^ i suspect if I were a professional it would probably be an issue that comes up more often.