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Canon 1D mkII overheats while turned off in bag ???
Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 9:52 PM on 04.20.07 |
->> Very strange problem I've honestly never in my life heard of but maybe one of you has
My Canon 1D mkII developed a strange problem where the shutter simply wouldnt fire nor would the AF work on any lens I tried mounting.
After taking a few lens on/off I would then an Error 01 message whenever I pressed the shutter.
Now for the really weird part, the camera would not power off even when I turned the power switch off. I'd have to physically remove the camera to make the top and bottom LCD's turn off.
And it gets even weirder still, I put the camera back in my bag and when I pulled it out when I got home, the camera was very very hot. Not burning but probably about 100+ degree's.
So why would a camera thats turned off sitting in the back, with the battery installed start generating that kind of heat ?
Sounds like anything and everything that could go wrong with it has, but just yesterday it was working perfectly.
Any insights ? |
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Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 9:56 PM on 04.20.07 |
->> I forgot to mention one more odd detail that maybe means something to someone
After messing with taking the battery in/out a few times, I'd get the flashing battery indicator on the LCD and nothing else. I though perhaps I had a bad battery. But if a battery is that dead, how did it apparently make the entire camera body get so hot while turned off ?
And with other batteries I still get the exact same problem of the error 01 message.
So what's the odds I got a shutter failure at the same time as having some sort of electrical problem and a battery failure all within a few minutes
Now I need to figure out what will be faster, finally getting around to filling out my CPS forms and waiting for them to process, or just sending the camera into Canon normally and waiting a few weeks for them to get around to it ? |
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Jim Leary, Photographer
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| NY | USA | Posted: 10:04 PM on 04.20.07 |
| ->> Sounds like a job for CPS. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Fashion Heights | OH | USA | Posted: 10:10 PM on 04.20.07 |
->> I think what you have is one problem causing multiple symptoms. The heating problem is likely caused by a short of some sort which is also effecting your controls. (To shoot and use AF you have to use the controls obviously, same as turning the camera off.)
I would suggest you try another battery but that likely isn't the problem. (Though are these Canon batteries or knock offs?)
Has the camera been subjected to a hyper humid environment recently or gotten wet? (Have you been in a natatorium recently?) |
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Trevor Brown, Photographer, Assistant
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 10:14 PM on 04.20.07 |
->> Jeff, I must say, I have never heard of that one.
I can't respond about the problem you're having, but I can respond about your CPS question. Recently, I let my membership lapse and needed to get a lens fixed. I sent them the lens with a copy of my renewal, and I had the lens back a week later. I don't know if you're a new member or renewing, but you could always try sending the repair guys a copy of your application with the camera and they may turn it around faster since they'll see you're legit. You never know.
CPS has always been good to me and they get their repairs done on time, everytime.
Now, stop pouring hot lava on your camera.....
TB |
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Amir Gamzu, Photographer
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Ann Arbor | MI | USA | Posted: 10:18 PM on 04.20.07 |
| ->> send the camera off and the CPS membership at the same time. Canon is very fast with repairs period. I still need to do the CPS thing, and my two repairs were very fast. |
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Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 10:30 PM on 04.20.07 |
->> Thanks for all the quick responces on this. It is indeed possible may its a single short circuit somewhere thats playing havoc with so many other things.
What even weirder is that the camera was subject to not rough handling or enviroments recently. past few days have been warm and sunny and that camera has worked fine. Used it yesterday in fact shooting a few of the new recruits on the football team. Turned it off, went back in my bag and then today I get to baseball, mount the camera on the lens, turn it on and notice the AF isn't working. Not only that but the shutter won't fire either. Mount and remount, same problem. Try my 70-200 instead, still nothing. Then error 01 pops up whenever I hit the shutter. Then all the other problems with battery indicator, the inability to turn the camera off, the strange overheating while turned off in my bag on the drive home etc.
Just very weird, its not been dropped, submerged, taken from hot to cold enviroments or anything.
I guess thats electronics though, they don't give you signs that they will break, they simply break all of a sudden on you.
Sounds like a good idea sending in the application with the body though. At any rate I defiantly do need to get both those things submitted so might as well save on postage right LOL
Maybe I should leave the camera outside tonight, I don't want to wake up at 4am to find its burst into flames even though the battery isn't installed. |
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Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 10:31 PM on 04.20.07 |
| ->> You know whats really too bad ? That Ohio State's annual spring football game tommorow probably isn't going to be a big enough of event to have the CPS trailer come out like the Superbowl, because boy, that would sure of made things easy for me, |
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Gene Boyars, Photographer
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Matawan | NJ | United States | Posted: 9:00 AM on 04.21.07 |
->> Jeff,
Your CPS application needs to to go Canon in Lake Success NY, your body needs to go to a Canon Factory Service Center. One is in Jamesburg, NJ, another is in Irvine, CA. Lake Success has no repair facilities so send them in seperately but put a note in with the body. It sure sounds like a short circuit somewhere, but blown shutters make them do weird things too, especially if the shutter is locked open in the middle of a cycle so take a look at the shutter too. |
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Seh Suan Ngoh, Photographer
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Singapore | SG | Singapore | Posted: 10:20 PM on 04.22.07 |
->> Depends on where the camera feels hot to you.
If it's concentrated around the battery compartment, you'll have a pretty clear idea it's the battery's shorting. If the warmth is all over, good luck. |
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