my dad bought an old compaq for 40 bucks from a rummage sale about 8 months ago or so. it of course had a floppy drive, much like our computer we had at home. we never used it, so basically i grabbed it and stole whati wanted from it. having 3 floppy drives with no use for any of them, i decided to take apart one of these buggers and see what was inside. well to my dismay, nothing fun or important was really in there, damn floppys. so i figured i could alteast take the connector from that, since with the cable its still good. so i broke that off, and kept it. well along comes my 4x20 lcd display. all soldered up, hooked up to my computer, but after a little use the wires soldered on broke and i didnt want to solder it again. the wires are just soldered onto the contacts, and thats the only thing holdiing the cable to the lcd. it was pretty weak, and whenever i moved it i had to be careful that i didnt ripe them all out. i needed a new way of soldering them on. along comes my floppy drive connector. i was thinking of first soldering the lcd to another connecter, then the end of the cable to the opposite connector. as i looked at my diff connectors to do that, i realized it would be a lot of work of putting all these wires onto the lcd. then i remembered my floppy connector. i thought of basically instead of the floppy drive, its a lcd. so i did a some brainstorming, and some glancing, turns out i could just push the connector right into the holes on my lcd, and solder those on real quick to make sure they stay. so i got to work on that, put the connector through the holes, soldered it on good. here are 2 pictures of what i all did
If you'll notice that in the bottom picture the reflection in the LCD is a lot more in focus than the subject of the photograph is: this suggests that you had the camera on normal 'auto-focus', and need to set it on "Macro Mode", which is designed for taking shots at 30cm or so. The icon for this on most cameras is a kind of tulip flower.
