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Hello,

Couldn't find any thread about this; excuse me if I'm wrong.

I just received my A620 and I think there are two issues with my tilt 'n swivel screen.
  • It seems to be not completely horizontally aligned when put into the camera with the LCD screen facing you. The right part is slightly higher, but only 0.5mm or so... So on the left there is some space between the screen and the camera body 'case' in which it rests, on the right side, the frame of the screen is touching the body.
  • When the screen is in this position, the right side of the screen is also protruding a little from the camera backside. So there is a slight angle between the back of the camera and the screen! I find this really strange. Pressing the right side down into the body doesn't help to get it straight, it really doesn't fit properly.
I would be very happy to know whether these things are normal or not. I think the first is just a very small defect (worth asking for another copy?), but the second..?

Thanks,
Marijn
 
I've had my 620 for about a week and that's one of the first things I noticed about it. My A80 isn't like that. Since I didn't buy it locally, I decided to live with it. I haven't seen any other 620's, so I don't know if it's normal or not. So far it hasn't caused a problem...
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Rich
Young Harris, GA
 
My A610 exhibits the same misalignment. if i open the display and look in the recess ther are two dimples that will stop the display being pushed in any more. On further inspection I think that it is a design feature.

Regards
David
 
I just checked mine out... It is only when the LCD is showing and pushed up against the back of the camera, it is SO slight, that it doesn't make a bit of differnece. (I mean, I NEVER would have seen it, had you not posted about it...)

Proud owner of a new a620

Erika
 
David 09 said:
My A610 exhibits the same misalignment. if i open the display and
look in the recess ther are two dimples that will stop the display
being pushed in any more. On further inspection I think that it is
a design feature.
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Yup, I think so too. Makes it easier to get your fingertip in the otherwise too small recess to the right of the screen and lift it. Perhaps it's not the most aesthetically pleasing solution, but then again neither is the A6x0 design as a whole IMO! ;)

This is what it looks like on my A620:

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003325.JPG
From below: LCD facing the body.

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003326.JPG
From below: LCD facing outwards.

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003327.JPG
http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003328.JPG
From above. Any misalignment barely noticable at all.
 
mine looks the same. really no big deal.

a message to people that get all worked up and anal about stupid things like these: use you camera. abuse it. you're just going to get another one in a year or less.
Seehund said:
This is what it looks like on my A620:

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003325.JPG
From below: LCD facing the body.

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003326.JPG
From below: LCD facing outwards.

http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003327.JPG
http://pannbe.net/blah/IM003328.JPG
From above. Any misalignment barely noticable at all.
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and a lot of ours are not. i don't think that it amounts to a hill of beans. i don't think it makes your pictures any better, either.

and what if canon intended for the slight protrusion. now YOUR camera isn't "perfect" but "flawed".

like i said...way too many anal people obsessing over NOTHING.
milehog said:
My 620 screen is perfectly aligned.
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Mine the very same missalignement as you described. I just don't care as long as the optic is perfect and the pictures I take are good.
 
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