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My 1D MKII; belly up?
Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 7:29 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> I was shooting the Fresno State vs Sac State football game last night and all of a sudden I get this result. I looked in the camera and saw a piece of black material, solid and oblong, obviously a loose part that had worked loose and was hanging over the sensor. It looked like a automobile sunvisor. In addition, I guess this created a light aberration... Have any of you seen this before and if so, what is it?
Will send to Canon on Tuesday.
If it's what I think it is, a bad shutter assembly, how much does it cost to fix?
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Bastian Ehl, Photographer
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Magdeburg | _ | Germany | Posted: 7:30 PM on 09.02.07 |
| ->> looks like a broken shutter |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 7:36 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> Yes, that shutter is gone.
My MKIIn is giving me MKIII results:(
I need to verify settings
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Nick Adams, Photographer
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Marysville | CA | | Posted: 7:37 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> That's your shutter in your photos, so you have a blown shutter.
I've had two shutters repaired at around $250.00. But I am a CPS member, if you are not, the cost will be higher since CPS tries to keep everything under 700.00
Just a little FYI. If you send a org 1D in for minor repair to CPS, they will say they have to replace the shutter for a total cost of 700.00. It seems like they are trying to phase the old 1D's out. |
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John H. Reid III, Photographer
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Gates Mills | OH | USA | Posted: 8:02 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> Phil,
Same thing happened to me this summer. It is a bad shutter. Just under $350.00 to repair by CPS.
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Bill Vaughn, Photographer
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Huntsville | Al | United States | Posted: 8:11 PM on 09.02.07 |
| ->> It's unanimous. Blown shutter. I had same happen at the Formula 1 race in Indy. Several frames had the black spots, and I thought was underexposed areas(so bright I couldn't see the LCD very good) after about 50 more shots, err99. CPS said "what did you do to it?" I said just "used it". Cost me $385. |
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Joseph Brymer, Photographer
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Lincolnton | NC | usa | Posted: 8:15 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> Blown Shutter! Had the same thing happen on my D2H about a year ago. About $300.00 bucks throgh NPS not sure about CPS.
Good luck. |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 9:22 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> Thanks, all. I may trash this camera if it's going to be $700; I can buy a new 40D for not much more.
Phil |
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Nick Adams, Photographer
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Marysville | CA | | Posted: 9:54 PM on 09.02.07 |
->> Phil. I wrote the wrong number before. CPS tries to keep everything under $300 not $700.
Sorry, so don't trash your camera. |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 10:51 PM on 09.02.07 |
| ->> blown shutter. my mark2 shutter blew at 84K. CPS replace it and put a new top plate on for $485. I didn't request the top plate - oh well, but I think they also put in a new sensor because there were areas of the frame that was consistently blurred that were no longer there when the camera came back from CPS - since it was performing better, sharper than when I sent it in I didn't complain. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 2:21 AM on 09.03.07 |
->> I had my 2nd annual shutter blow on my Mark II (bought about 2 weeks before the "N" model was released)
My first one was covered under warranty but I doubt the second one will be.
Hey, I guess misery really does love company.
EMI |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 3:15 PM on 09.03.07 |
->> Interesting that my MKII blows a shutter, meanwhile, the 20D I bought years ago and shoot basketball with just keeps on ticking. Maybe I'm two frames away from it going belly up too, but I am WAY happy with my 20D. Damned fine camera. It must have 200k actuations on it... I have used it heavily since it came out 3 years ago in cold, rain, heat, dirt, helicpoter-rotor-blast-dust, you name it.
Once I was looking for a hammer and all I had was my 20D, so I put the long lens on it for a handle and... Nah, just kidding, but sometimes you feel like you really could do that.
Phil |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 9:07 PM on 09.03.07 |
->> Phil, I was thinking the same thing today as I used my old 20D (along side my 5D) for a grueling long baseball tournament. It just keeps clicking out nice images. I'll be sending my MKII in to Canon tomorrow morning.
EMI |
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Philipp von Ditfurth, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Staufen | B-W | Germany | Posted: 9:21 PM on 09.03.07 |
| ->> I´m also a big fan of the 20D. I´ve got mine since more than two years, did all my assignments with it and it still goes pretty well. |
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Tyler Kaufman, Student/Intern, Photographer
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New Orleans | LA | USA | Posted: 11:47 PM on 10.10.07 |
| ->> I seem to have the same problem with my Mark II. White line of light down the middle. Does the price always vary on the shutter replaced by CPS? |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 12:09 AM on 10.11.07 |
->> I really don't think you can go with any general assumptions about 20d's or MkII's etc. I have had more than a few friends with DOA 20d's for shutters. For the most part I have seen much better reliabilty with the MkII.
Until about a year ago I had one friend, a pro, buying up every good MkI he could find because they were just what he needed and he was getting excellent use from them. |
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Barry Curtis, Photographer
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Laguna Beach | Ca | | Posted: 5:00 AM on 10.13.07 |
->> Phil
Same thing happened with my MK II
Right at the beginning of a big game.
I shot with it anyway and the entire shutter curtain
grenaded taking out the box and sensor.
Canon cut me a break and only charged me $600
replaced the shutter curtain and some other part under warranty. I had to buy a new sensor. Ouch
It has been a great camera ( and still is on its second life)
Barry |
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Greg Foster, Photographer
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Atlanta | GA | | Posted: 10:14 AM on 10.13.07 |
->> Does anybody else feel like if you pay 4 or 5 thousand dollars for a camera, it should last longer than this? It's almost like the blown shutters are just accepted as part of the deal. Anybody else remember when Hasselblad and Leica film cameras seemed expensive? When I shoot 35mm film nowdays, I still pick up my almost 20 year old Nikon FM2s, and they still work great. I think I paid in the neighborhood of 500 dollars for each of them. If only they'd make a digital FM2...maybe the 20D is the digital equivalent, or the closest thing to it right now.
The price to be in business goes up astronomically, but the rates that the editorial business wants to pay stays the same or goes down...but I guess that's another story. |
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Glenn Connelly, Student/Intern
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San Diego | CA | US | Posted: 6:41 PM on 10.13.07 |
| ->> Yeha but that nikon/leica wasnt shooting entire football games at 8.5 fps... |
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