Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

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p.1 #1 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

I don't know if canon would allow it or if they would do it, but has anyone ever changed out your LCD for a better one? I don't mean 3" for 2.5". I mean 50D for 40D. I love my 40D and have no interest in upgrading to the 50D at this point, but I would like to have that LCD and I don't see why it wouldn't work. The LCD is just a monitor. I don't see any reason for them to be camera specific.....Any thoughts?

Nov 21, 2008 at 07:48 PM

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p.1 #2 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

The video chip logic driving the lcd probably won't let it work IMO.

Nov 21, 2008 at 07:51 PM

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p.1 #3 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

I am not sure but it probably doesnt just plug in either. I suspect it is soldered to the board. This may or may not be an issue for you.

Nov 21, 2008 at 08:00 PM

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p.1 #4 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

You would probably have to revise the firmware to support the new display.

Nov 21, 2008 at 08:03 PM

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p.1 #5 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

The guys at my local camera store looked into it and stated that the old lcd had 2 prongs, where the new one has 3. Something along those lines anyway, that it wouldn't probably work to just swap out. I'm sure the money counters at canon made certain that you couldn't just do that!

Nov 21, 2008 at 09:01 PM

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p.1 #6 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

Thanks guys. Yeah I thought that canon probably had it set up like that. They know what they're doing.

Nov 21, 2008 at 09:33 PM

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p.1 #7 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

photoomaha wrote:
The guys at my local camera store looked into it and stated that the old lcd had 2 prongs, where the new one has 3. Something along those lines anyway, that it wouldn't probably work to just swap out. I'm sure the money counters at canon made certain that you couldn't just do that!

Not Canon, Sony. Sony sells the LCD to Canon, Nikon, etc.

Nov 21, 2008 at 09:35 PM

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p.1 #8 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

The LCD display is just a dead set of pixels until someone puts information to them. The hardware address path of a 40D is not enough too handle all the pixels. Besides, the firmware does not create those pixels in the first place. So it is not just the different hardware connectors but the whole camera design that makes the swap impossible.

Nov 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM

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p.1 #9 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

And financially you would be better off just selling the 40D and buying the 50D. The better screen is very useful for some people.
But as astrolucida said, there's no way. The "video card" in the 40D can't support the higher resolution.
You can add second monitor. The simplest would be to shoot tethered. That's the closest you can get with older cameras. But you still won't have live view.

Nov 22, 2008 at 02:04 PM

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p.1 #10 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

New 50D's are going for about $1,200, new 40D's are about $850 new. That's a difference of $350. If you could even buy the LCD from Canon do you think it would be way under $350? Not worth it.

Nov 22, 2008 at 02:35 PM

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p.1 #11 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

bmannon wrote:
I am not sure but it probably doesnt just plug in either. I suspect it is soldered to the board. This may or may not be an issue for you.

I've taken apart quite a few P&S cameras and replaced the LCDs on them. For example, I had two broken cameras of the same model. One had a broken LCD, one had broken electronics. I was able to swap the LCDs, and end up with a functional camera. In all cases, the LCD was attached via ribbon cable and a plastic clamp that sandwiches it against the contacts on the circuit board. It was very easy to swap them out.

That being said, I doubt it would work between a 40D and a 50D because the video signal or connector must be different.

Nov 22, 2008 at 03:06 PM

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p.1 #12 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

GeorgeK-NJ wrote:
New 50D's are going for about $1,200, new 40D's are about $850 new. That's a difference of $350. If you could even buy the LCD from Canon do you think it would be way under $350? Not worth it.

A really good 7" lcd for a pro video camera starts at about $2000. The 50D LCD is much smaller, but of similar quality. Mass production rocks.

Nov 22, 2008 at 03:43 PM

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p.1 #13 · Anyone ever swap out an LCD?

Ben Horne wrote: In all cases, the LCD was attached via ribbon cable and a plastic clamp that sandwiches it against the contacts on the circuit board. It was very easy to swap them out.

That is good to know!

Nov 22, 2008 at 11:08 PM


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