Sapphire glass vs standard M240 glass

[chaospress]

I had an M240 I had to return, but noticed the LCD glass was really nice, particularly because it stays clean and doesn't smear up.

I'm wondering if the same could be expected from sapphire glass.

I just read as well that Corning claims the glass they make for the standard M240 is actually more shatter resistant than the sapphire glass.

Thanks for comments...

 

[Godfrey]

I have the M-P. It's sapphire cover glass stays reasonably clean (nose grease will get on anything over time...) and cleans beautifully.

If I 'shatter' sapphire glass on my M-P, I think I have far more to worry about than whether the standard glass on the M is slightly stronger or weaker. I haven't found either to be a problem, and both are very resistant to scratches (no need for additional cover glass protection IMO).

G

 

[chaospress]

Hi Godfrey. Do you have both cameras?

I really didn't notice a grease up problem at all with the standard glass, maybe because I'm comparing to my M9, which seems to never stay clean. (Not sure if my M9 has some kind of 3rd party cover over it or it's the original surface). At any rate if I was going to go after an M-P I'd like if the surface was similarly smear resistant as the straight M240.

 

[Godfrey]

I don't own both, although I've used both M and M-P typ 240 side by side. My nose grease and finger grease tends to get on both of them, over time, so they don't seem very different to me. Casual use for a short period, neither show much in way of fingerprints or nose grease. (Dirt builds up from handling anyway, all cameras need an occasional cleaning.)

I use glass/acrylic cleaner that I saw the folks at the local Apple Retail Store using, I think it's called iClear. They recommended it for any gorilla glass/sapphire glass/acrylic LCD cover as it leaves an invisible film on the surface which helps prevent skin oils from clinging to it. When I clean my devices and camera LCD cover with it, I often don't see fingerprints on them for a week or three.

The M9 LCD cover glass is acrylic, I believe, and was reputed to be somewhat soft and prone to scratching. I had a hard laminate screen protector on that from the day I bought it.

G

 

[rscheffler]

Don't know about sapphire, but the difference between the M9 and M240 is night and day. My M9's screen is pretty beat up, whereas my M240's screen still looks really good with only micro scratches you can only see when the light reflects off it a certain way. I don't use a protector on either camera. Yes, the M240's screen cover glass will show smudges from skin oil, but cleans off very easily. I don't feel any desire to upgrade to the M-P due to sapphire glass. Rather, I want to upgrade for the larger buffer and apparently snappier operation over that of the M240.

 

[Keith]

My 240 lives screen side down in my Domke constantly and it moves around a fair bit. It is unmarked so far! 🙂

 

[chaospress]

I use glass/acrylic cleaner that I saw the folks at the local Apple Retail Store using, I think it's called iClear.

I guess I need that for my cheap iMac screen that collects dust and smears like there's no tomorrow. Whatever material they used was a cost cut for Apple from the previous iMacs they made.

 

[georgeqiao]

I have once shattered the glass on the M240, and I did not even know what happened. Most likely it hit the m6 on my neck. As I like to shoot 2 M cameras together. It costs 500 dollars to replace.