LCD screen issue temp burn in

Vultch

Vultch

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I have just taken delivery of my AF 101 and I pointed it out my window to get a night time city shot, basically the shot is dark with scores of street lights in the distance 4 miles away so lots of little White dots, I left the cam on this shot with the flip out screen out and on for an hour.
I then moved the camera and to my horror the street lights had burned in, initially I thought it was the sensor but the evf showed no White pixels, it was the LCD on the flip out screen.
It took 30 min switched off to clear the screen and it was a gradual decay as they faded.
My old Z1 or XL1 would never have done this on the same shot
 
That kind of thing has been reported a couple of times already, yes. It is something new, apparently Panasonic references it in the manual, and it is temporary.
 
Just happened to me too today. Left the camera pointed at one half of the kitchen turned on, came back an hour later, turned it around and went to turn it off and then looked at the LCD and then was kinda puzzled by these ghosts in the LCD and was trying to work out what it was, but then realized that they were the in the shape bars on the window and the shelves in my kitchen and whatnot (everything bright in the room as the 11mm was on it) and then remembered reading this. I was just wondering where in the manual it was referenced and what really caused it...?

EDIT:
Just found it on page 15 of the manual...
"Images or letters can get burned into the screen of the LCD or viewfinder if they are displayed for a long time, but you can fix this by leaving the camera off for several hours."
 
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