Hi all
This is my first post on this forum and I just wanted to start off by saying thanks to all members. I am just about to start out on the AP journey and it is thanks to a lot of the content on here that I have been able to develop the interest, confidence and plan to move forward with it!
I was hoping my first post would be a little more exciting but I have a problem that I was hoping to test with others that may have seen something similar.
I just tried to modify my Canon 450D following Gary Honis’s instructions (which were great). I am no electrical engineer but have been handy with such things in the past. I did not replace the IR filter - rather removed it entirely as I am planning on using a clip in LPS filter.
I thought it went well but when I went to turn the camera on I got nothing on the LCD. The backlight was coming on but nothing else. The camera was autofocusing, shuttering and flashing. Just nothing on the screen. I opened it up, checked all the ribbons again, and this time when I closed it up the screen backlight wouldn’t come on either. The rest was the same.
Any idea what I might have done/missed? Is it possible that the LCD back cover has just died?
The only other thing worth mentioning is the little black plastic part that has the hole for the white pin on the circuit board to go into -when I removed the circuit board, the black bit came away with it. There was a thin black flexible tube of sorts (1mm or so thick) that seemed to sit within the black part. I slotted that back in when putting it back together but not sure if that is usual or not?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. I plan to walk back through the process end to end next weekend to see if that does anything as I know some have had success just trying again.