Samsung NX300: AMOLED degradation

I accidentally got a Samsung NX300 camera. It hadn't been used for a couple of years, which probably led to some LCD AMOLED screen problems.

At first there were "migrating" pink spots on the screen. Then the screen dimmed and turned brown.

1. Now the images on the screen look sepia. The highlights are blown out.

It looks very bad, although the photos themselves have no problems (it's the same camera JPEG):

2. Ghosts ("shadows") of controls, text messages ("No Image File", "MENU") appear on the screen.

This camera JPEG is shown:

3. In bright sunlight it is now impossible to see the image on the screen even for framing. The two photos above had to be taken "blind" by roughly pointing the camera in the desired direction. Since the NX300 doesn't have a viewfinder.

I don't know what that is or why. Changing or resetting the settings doesn't help. It looks like AMOLED degradation. I'm surprised it appeared so early and after the camera has been turned off for a while.

See also related notes:

• Samsung NX300: dead pixels on the LCD AMOLED screen (2023-08-13)
• Samsung NX2000: cheap 20MP camera, welcome (2023-07-05)
• Samsung NX300: HDMI output (2023-06-07)
• 3" LCD Magnifier on Samsung NX300 (2023-04-07)

Image albums:

• Samsung NX300/NX300M